What to do with Moscow

in Moscow, six big issues - administrative, transportation, economic and social (the investment space for living space replaced), cultural identity (a total replacement of monuments remake), Environmental and Energy. Each of them potentially leading to the collapse of the city. We do not know how to solve them, and, worse still, they are so politicized that it is not clear whether it is true they are diagnosed, said Grigory Revzin. Consider the transportation problem. Dozens of people in one voice say that there are two reasons for Moscow's traffic jams - that Luzhkov was eagerly building shopping centers on the intersections of traffic flows and that government officials go to the flashing lights. In reality, however, this is pretty minor problem. Major - the low connectivity of the Moscow road network. In Moscow, it is impossible to pass from one sleeping area to the next, resulting in a center is up to 35% of transit traffic, which is not in any metropolis. The problem was diagnosed god knows when, in the general plan in 1971 with her already in full fight, and since then little has changed. It is necessary to construct about 50 bridges and tunnels under the railway in the area from Ring Road to the third vehicle, and the center will take up to a third machine. The second largest in the fact that 30% of roads in the center occupied by the spontaneous parking. If we solve these two problems, the center will be half machine peak loads will not more than five points. But bridges, tunnels and parking - is politically uninteresting topics, then talk about them? Take part of the administrative issues - the relationship of the city and region. claim that in reality they are living as one, but they can not be join because of tyranny Luzhkov and Gromov. Deeper people say that the connection is not due to overloading of the state structure - a federation there is a subject almost equipotent entire federation. Someone proposes the creation of the Federal District, Moscow, managed directly modeled on the President District of Columbia, someone said that the Russian reality, it becomes a presidential fief modeled oprichnina Ivan the Terrible. That is a big political problem. In reality, however, the whole form with Moscow not Moscow region, a 30-kilometer ring around Moscow, and if you count traffic in Moscow without Rublevka absurd, it is equally absurd to assume that Moscow can not operate without control Dmitrov, Volokolamsk, Serpukhov and Kolomna - so far they do not constitute a single whole with Moscow. The political problem and the reality are located on different territories. It is clear, how delicious is the theme of investment housing in Moscow, especially since there is also Baturina, which controlled much as 2% of the market and, of course, completely spoil it. But in general there is indeed a serious problem. Luzhkov invented socialism, and to divide capitalism geographically. The main mass of people he had left Socialism - subsidies on rents, benefits to pensioners, the poor gain, low property taxes, life on the BTI. And in the empty lands spread capitalism with the atomic property prices. This secured him social peace when in the city with a population of 10 to 20 million at the protest beyond 200. But the empty land ended - began the excesses of "Rechnik." You can, of course, continue to assert that all the problems of greed Baturina, but what's the point? Economic Model of Moscow was to exchange petrodollars for the investment per square meter. We always worried what will happen when oil runs out, but ended meter. We need a new model, it does not even hint. When this summer, Yuri Luzhkov pushed master plan, more importantly, what surprised this document - almost complete lack of strategy. City have been designed so that everything went as passed, but the general idea of ​​how to be, Yuri Mikhailovich was thinking myself. Over the years he listened to less and less professional, more self-reliant and more entangled. The result is that the problems are more or less visible, but the Bank of solutions is empty. The best experts in the main work from the same institute Yuri Mikhailovich in the Master Plan. They are demoralized by years of service with Luzhkov, and as for the opposition of ideas, they somehow can not see. You can not really solve the problem by demolishing metropolis of Peter the Great and put on the blue buckets on the head! three weeks participating in all meetings and round tables, I gradually realized that, perhaps, is not ready to punish Sergei Sobyanin no. I admire people who believe that their mandates to significantly improve the situation, but, in my opinion, these ideas are often comical and malorealizuemy. President Sarkozy last year ordered the ten major Paris office to develop a ten plans for reconstruction of Paris - as a result it now have a plan for "Greater Paris", which was shown at this year's Biennale in Moscow and at the Venice Biennale. I can easily call the top ten architectural firms in Moscow, but I'm not sure that such an action, we will be successful . The French know their architects, are proud of them and believe them, the architects out there are thinking globally and baked for the public good by trying to offer a strategy for the city as a whole. Our architects have two crises were without work, they had nothing to do, but for the city as a whole they do not offered nothing, they too are interested in specific orders for specific funds. As a result, our architects, nobody knows, and be proud of them is not accepted, it is unlikely they are able to create an image of the future of Moscow, which entice anyone. The only thing I would probably have advised - to create an institution of strategic issues in Moscow. We have all sorts of academies and so on, but as it turned out with the removal of Yuri Mikhailovich, were engaged in something they do not it, or he did not give them a long time to do it, what they really think and been forgotten. And the best, as it is in Anglo-Saxon world, - the two institutions, one public and one private, which compete with each other. Let the town offers some strategies. Then it will be understood that criticize and punish that.