21st Century (2000–present)

Tbilisi Land Use Master Plan 2030

2019 · Georgia · Eastern Europe & Caucasus · National modernization and capital-city building · Planned by Tbilisi City Hall
General Plan of the City of Tbilisi, the statutory land-use plan underpinning the 2030 Land Use Master Plan.
General Plan of the City of Tbilisi, the statutory land-use plan underpinning the 2030 Land Use Master Plan. · Public domain (official document, Georgian Law No. 2388-Is) · Tbilisi City Hall (2009)

Core idea

Zoning overhaul + hillside protection

Why it matters

Caucasus capital modernization

Description

A land-use master plan for the Georgian capital adopted in 2019 by Tbilisi City Hall, setting the framework for the city's development to 2030. Its core moves are a comprehensive overhaul of the zoning regime after a period of weakly regulated construction, and protection of the hillsides, green wedges and river landscape that define the city's dramatic topographic setting. It is the first full recasting of Tbilisi's planning framework in the post-Soviet era of market urbanisation.

Significance

The plan matters as an attempt to re-establish public planning authority in a post-socialist capital where deregulation had produced dense, ad hoc development and loss of green space. It is characteristic of capital-city modernisation efforts across the Caucasus and wider post-Soviet space, testing whether zoning and landscape protection can discipline speculative growth.

What shaped it

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