Pedestrian accessibility of secondary schools as the most reliable way of getting knowledge
The paper deals with one of the most substantial causes of the national education decline related to destruction of the rules established by the Russian national urban planning science in regard to the school-planning system. The adequacy of this viewpoint is demonstrated by schools allocation in Leningrad/Saint-Petersburg in different periods. Educational results of the school system during the academic year 2003/2004 are investigated. This is when selective level educational institutions came up to 60 % of the total number of secondary schools in St. Petersburg.