The city as an object of administrative-bureaucratic manipulation
The perspective of city development is urgent as owing to the importance of the cities in modern society, and owing to complexity of problems of management of the cities. In article the actual domination of the state (administrative bureaucratic apparatus) in processes of management of the cities is discussed. The defects and contradictions generated by such domination are considered, alternatives of the place and functions of the state in city development are discussed. A key contradiction between the bureaucratic approach and the market principles of development of the cities providing their competitiveness is the dichotomy of “centralization or decentralization” and “variety or unification”. In article approaches to upgrade of a management system by the cities taking into account available today and in the historical past of experience such are stated.