Krašto erdvinės raidos koncepcijos idėja

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present the author’s concept of the country’s spatial development. Success of the ongoing territory planning and its result -the Lithuanian Comprehensive Plan - will depend on the concept of the country’s spatial development, which should be simple, understandable and pragmatic. The concept of the country’s spatial development will be based on the tendencies in the industrialization of the country’s economy, the influence of internal and external market, the processes of the internal economy of the country, the economic, social, environmental quality, the system of settlements, etc., as well as on the inertia of the country’s development, uncertainty of the development in future and only possibility of an indirect regulation of the processes. Analysis of common tendencies of the country’s development and the hypothesis of the development which arc based on a high probability of repetition of the development of other countries in Lithuania, make possible the actual prerequisites of significant territorial redistribution of inhabitants and their employment in the first, second and third sectors as well as changes in land use. There are clear differences in social, economic development, life and environmental quality, which may overgrow into social strain and active negative processes - depopulation in regions and villages and overpopulation in cities as well as additionally emerging problems. The essence of the proposed concept for the country’s spatial development is as follows: to identify and legitimate the fact of the existence of high activity zones as an element for a long term state policy and their status as the zones of macroeconomics stabilization for the country’s future with favourable conditions for development; to legitimate zones with problems as an object for the country’s special development and regulation; to legitimate the whole complex of zones for applying a balanced principle of development. The development concept is considered as the aim in future when the corresponding legal basis will be ready; separate programs for the whole country and its parts or regions with problems, and comprehensive and special (sectorial) plans will be prepared. Here the principles of a sustainable development should dominate.