“You have to dream! Even if decisions are not realized today, but tomorrow, ”he said.
He explained that decisions on the development of settlements should be made not only on the basis of urban planning documents and standards, but also with a focus on the future.
As an example, he cited Veliky Novgorod, which can be reached by different transport, but not by plane.
“This is not because there is no airport. He was here, but in the 1990s, it was decided to liquidate the airport by building up the runway with a cottage village, ”the head of government said.
As Medvedev noted, all decisions should be oriented toward the future, "based on the assumption that we will improve the urban environment every year."
“I just want to make everyone think about a simple thing: the people who made this decision rated the city’s potential so low that they said:“ We don’t need an airport, ”he emphasized.
Earlier, Medvedev said that more than 400 billion rubles have been budgeted for the development of the urban environment.
Also, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in an interview with RT spoke about trends in the development of world cities.