Political forces running for the Yerevan municipal assembly make special references in their platforms to widespread concerns of the capital’s residents over construction and urban development projects, some of which have been a matter of great controversy in recent years.

Campaigns of nearly all candidates for the city’s top post pledge consideration of peculiarities of planning typical of large cities in construction and redevelopment projects that they say will preserve the spirit of the Yerevan once designed by famous architect Alexander Tamanyan.