SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF THE UKRAINIAN LUTSK CITY DEVELOPMENT: DYNAMICS, TRENDS, AND SOME PARADOXES

The decentralization reform in Ukraine allowed the territorial communities to develop their Strategies of Development. The long-term planning should be based on an analysis of the socio-political state of the community and its socio-economic indicators. For analyze the socio-economic indicators of the city of Lutsk (2008-2018) in the main spheres of its life, which allow the study of various urban systems and control over their development according to management strategy involving citizens in urban planning, the sociological and statistical data for the certain period were used. According to sociological data, residents of Lutsk reoriented themselves from material problems to more important needs of a social, political and professional nature. The statistics demonstrate an improvement in a number of the economic indicators of its development, negative demographic trends and some paradoxes of public services. Sociological data and statistics demonstrate the primacy of resolving some of the issues related to the quality of human capital in the cooperation of scientists, city authorities, business and the public sector.