The Synergies Between the Sustainable Development Goals and the Almaty Ccity Development Master-Plan

Abstract

Regional development is an important tool for the implementation of the forecast scheme, which establishes a new regional policy, the essence of which is to create the country's economic potential and favorable conditions for vital activity of the population. This, in turn, causes the need to identify issues system and factors, which are limiting social and economic development of regions and to establish an effective mechanism of action of local executive bodies to eliminate them. Kazakhstan's governments develop special master-plan, programs which are targeted on urban development. However, urbanization process is claimed as deeply contradictory process, which ambiguously impacted on the socio-economic and demographic development, brought to life global issues. Such issues are common as well for Kazakhstan's cities too. In presented paper we reviewed exiting national plans related to urban sustainable development. This paper is aimed to understand historical preconditions of Almaty city development, current issues of city.