LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR TBILISI ... - LED

Contemporary territorial structure of Tbilisi was formed in the process of city
historical development as a result of internal and external factors impact. This
process consists of several emphatic chronological stages.
Feudal age (from recognition of Tbilisi as a capital city to the end of the XVIII
century). The city is developed on both embankments of the river Mtkvari, in
the limited territorial conditions – basically, within the city fence. In the end of
this period can be observed the trend of moving out of the fence in the mode
of external district.
Period of Russian empire (1801-1917) - The city self-defensive surrounding is
losing significance, Tbilisi first invades in higher Plato of the right embankment
of the river Mtkvari; on the left embankment German colony is established;
later occurs its and outskirt countries incorporation into Tbilisi administrative
boarders. The city acquires the trend of linear development, basically in the
upper direction of the river Mtkvari. Coexistence of ancient “Asian” and
modern “European” parts is formed like metaphoric description of “doubleface
Ianus”.
Short term existence of Georgian democratic republic (1918-1921) added
nothing to Tbilisi in terms of territorial development.
Soviet period (1921-1991) was marked with emphatic increase of capital
population and its territory. All parameters of the city development were
regulated by General plans; In the Soviet period, since 1934, 3 general plans
had been adopted; The calculating period of the last of which was accounted
till 2000. According to the general plan, residential massifs, industrial-storage
zones are created in the peripheries, social-cultural and storage-technical
infrastructure are developed; For the first time, attention is paid to the urban
heritage; also considerable attention is paid to the city green plants and
suburban recreational zones.
Period of Independence (1991- till now). In recent years the city has been
developing on behalf of the internal territorial resources, often, contradictional
to the emerged building process and without taking into consideration
interests of the residents. Under the conditions of reducing Tbilisi population
number and beginning suburbanization, in the end of 2006 emphatic
expansion of the capital administrative boarders (recently created Didgori
region) and separating of the “Old Tbilisi” administrative raegion acquires a
new space to the capital urban problem. This challenge should be answered
by the announced contest of the 3rd April of 2007 on composing “general
plan of Tbilisi land use”.