METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO TERRITORIAL PLANNING OF CITY AGGLOMERATIONS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE OMSK AGGLOMERATION)

Abstract

The concept of city agglomeration as in general and so in terms of territorial planning is considered. The main benefits of agglomerations, as a special form of the territorial organization of the population and economy, are considered. The development of population resettlement is proved to be efficient in Russia in the form of city agglomerations in the conditions of objective processes of compression of economic space and long economic crisis. Various approaches to investigation and allocation of city agglomerations and their borders in Russia are compared. The Omsk city agglomeration, problems of allocation of its borders as well as the possibility of territorial planning and development are analyzed.