The purpose of the study is to determine the paradigm of modern urban activity development justifying the dominant influence of social and environmental factors on the modern model of urbanized areas. The methods of systemic, logical and comparative analysis are applied, as well as the results of the public opinion survey on the comfort of the urban environment, the findings of the authors' own research on identifying preferences and needs of the population in environmental construction products with an emphasis on the quality of the urban environment. The role and the content of social and ecological aspects of human vital activity environment that determines the priorities of modern development of urban development in the regions of Russia is shown. The indicators of housing construction are analyzed, the role of large-panel housing construction in solving strategic problems of housing provision based on the environment comfort is considered. The obtained results can be used to develop methods and tools for regulating construction activities.

The aim of this study is to develop a model for institutionalizing the social and environmental responsibility of the construction business as an important factor in the modern urban development. Methods of systems, logical and comparative analysis, as well as a questionnaire survey are used in the research. Based on the situation in Tomsk (Russia), public preferences and needs for construction products have been examined taking into account environmental friendliness and the quality of the urban environment. The results of the examination are presented in this paper. The study reveals the public need for building products and shows how these needs are related to greening the construction industry and developing the social and environmental responsibility of the construction business. The green urban development needs an environmentally sustainable regulation mechanism based on appropriate methods, tools and organizational forms of interactions between stakeholders in the construction industry. A concept for managing interactions between stakeholders in urban development is proposed on the basis of the ECOURBANBUILD platform. The integration based on this platform will create additional opportunities to implement the social and environmental responsibility of the construction business in the interests of sustainable urban development.

The purpose of the current research is identification of problems that the investment and construction business faces in conditions of innovative economics. The urgent necessity to systematize these problems and find ways of their solution determined the relevance of the research. Using the methods of statistical processing of information, economic groups and logical analysis, the authors assessed innovative activity of enterprises, concluded that it was reduced, and pointed out the main problems of the investment and construction sphere. The problems include technological backwardness and low level of innovation, insufficient qualification of stuff, which is able to generate and introduce innovations in construction, and lack of attention of company management to the strategic aspects of innovation. The problem of investment and construction enterprises related to the restoration of business that suffered from pandemic is especially highlighted. These problems are closely related to the low level of investment in the innovative development of the construction business. Financing of the innovative activity is directly related to all participants of the innovative process. It is necessary to organize a clear mechanism for participants’ interaction. As a result, authors of the current research classified the participants of the innovative process in investment and construction business, determined their functions. The authors suppose that the problems of innovative financing are the most significant. In this connection, the problem of venture financing of the innovative activity is considered in more detail and solutions are offered.