Direct Involvement of the Citizens in Formation of a Comfortable Urban Environment

The article deals with theoretical and practical issues of the direct involvement of the citizens in discussions and decision-making in the field of the urban development. Digitalization has covered various aspects of not only social life, but also public administration, new technologies are actively used in building interaction between the public authorities and the population. At the level of the Russian Federation subject citizens, there is experience of citizen’s direct involvement in decision-making regarding creating a comfortable urban environment. Modern means of the public communication—city’s online-platforms give numerous benefits and allow raising the questions. Particularly, current legal regulation in the sphere of ensuring the citizen’s participation has certain gaps and conflicts, lagging behind urban innovations in public life. Introduction of amendments to the Russian law will allow for a timely and appropriate response to citizens' needs, creating new quality of life in cities. From the perspective of formal-legal, critical and systematic approaches, the author analyzed the current legal regulation and practice in the sphere of the consideration of the citizen’s opinions on urban city life and introduces several measures to improve it.