Creative industries and sustainable development of regional centers of the Volga Federal District: co-direction of development vectors
Abstract. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the need to fulfill tasks of the increasing role of creative industries as a resource for sustainable urban development. One of the goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program is SDG #11 "Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements". The basis for a city`s sustainability is its demographic sustainability. One of the criteria that ensures it is the quality of life of the city`s population. For a long time, it has been customary to assess the standard of living of the population using such indicators as "income per capita", "level and dynamics of prices for basic consumer goods", etc. However, they do not fully reveal the quality of life of the population, which depends, among other things, and from the opportunity to spend quality leisure time, and from a comfortable urban environment. Today, ensuring conditions for a high quality of life is impossible without creative industries, which is confirmed by the inclusion of indicators for their assessment in the leading ratings and indices of sustainable development of territories. The research purpose is to study the relationship between sustainable development and the development of creative industries using the example of regional centers of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation (VFD). The object of the study is the creative industries of the regional centers of the Volga Federal District. The research object includes the relationship between the sustainable development of the city and the number of creative industries organizations, the level of employment in the creative sector and the contribution of creative industries organizations to the GMP. Analysis, synthesis, grouping, comparison, juxtaposition, a tabular method, a rank method are used in this work. Based on the results of the study, a potential relationship was established between the sustainability of the development of regional centers of the Volga Federal District - cities with a population of over a million people - and the level of development of creative industries in them, primarily in relation to the indicator "the share of organizations in the total number of organizations in the city."
Keywords: sustainable development, creative industries, creative economy, creative class, creative city, creative specializations, sustainable development, quality of life
Highlights:
♦ the co-direction of sustainable development and the development of creative industries in the regional centers of the Volga Federal District have been identified, primarily in relation to the largest cities;
♦ a strong relation was identified between the position of a regional center with a population of more than 1 million people and the share of organizations in the creative industries sector in the total number of organizations in the city;
♦ business-oriented creative industries and the creative class are concentrated in the largest cities by population;
♦ a set of measures for the formation and development of creative industries for the purpose of sustainable urban development should be different depending on the size of the city.
Irina V. Klimova, Lyubov N. Semerkova - Penza State University, Penza, Russia