Analyzing the Principles of Strategic Planning with the Introduction of Elements of Smart Technologies in the Process of Management of the Local Territorial Development in Ukraine

Strategic planning for the development of territories in Ukraine becomes relevant in the process of ongoing decentralization reform. United territorial communities, which can include cities of different sizes and opportunities (from cities of regional or district status to small cities), have received expanded powers and today have the opportunity to use existing and additional resources (natural, infrastructure, social, labor, financial, innovation, investment, information, science and technology) to increase local budget revenues, get better opportunities of influence on their development and create conditions for increasing the well-being of the population. Successful are the territories, which thanks to well-designed strategies develop existing opportunities, support and improve internal living conditions, successfully use external factors, which affects the flow of investment and further effective development using technological innovations. Modern strategic planning further on remains a way to solve a large number of complex and acute local problems of life support of community, create conditions and opportunities for development, improve competitiveness, introduce smart technologies in the process of managing territorial development. Analysis of existing strategic approaches to the management of territorial development provides a possibility to explore the principles of organizing the elaboration and implementation of development strategies of the territories, in particular smart cities, in Ukraine. Use of modern strategic planning mechanisms for almost all spheres of territorial development, based on the benefits of technological advances and new IT technologies, allows the identification and use of smart elements, in primarily for the efficient local development in Ukraine.