SOME ISSUES OF THE URBAN EDUCATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
The article discusses the development of urban education in the context of some post-industrial trends, including ecologization of urban development activity, the involvement of residents and members of other professions in the decision of urban issues, the increasing importance of social studies and, as a result of the changing role of the designer in an urban practice. The article presents the results of interviews with Russian city planners, who were given the opportunity to summarize expert opinions on the required professional competencies that enable graduates hold high career positions. Together with the requirements of federal state educational standards, defining "general cultural" and "professional" competence for each direction of learning were offered a list of "synthetic" competencies, taking into account the unique features of urban development activities. Comparison and analysis of ideas about the professional qualifications of a city planner, characteristic of the 20th century, and popular in modern cities, makes it possible to make conclusions about the evolution of the educational paradigm in urban planning education: from "knowledge" and rationalist - to the phenomenological and «world outlook».