The hierarchy of goals for sustainable development of the city and the methodology for assessing achievements

The future is created today, taking the form of cities. Today, as throughout human history, people strive to unite in order to have more opportunities for exchange - goods, services, ideas, best practices, for teaching each other, for the production of something new and useful, and finally, for joint joys and to protect each other. Cities are places where people can realize their ambitions, where hopes, aspirations and dreams become reality. And today, the dynamics and quality of urban development come to the forefront, and the competition of cities for talents and successful businesses is becoming more acute and obvious. There is an obvious demand for economic models of urban development, allowing to evaluate the conditions and successive successes of cities in following the path of development of the quality of life of citizens. This article proposes a model for assessing the sustainability of the growth of quality of life in the city, based on the logic of the pyramid of Maslow's needs. The following are brief results of measuring Moscow in accordance with this methodology

Keywords: sustainable development, cities, urban economics, quality of life, Maslow's pyramid of needs

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