Principles of Urban Planning Development of Suburban Belt of Samara-Togliatti Agglomeration

Abstract

The article deals with the solution of such issues that are associated with the development of the suburban belt of Samara-Togliatti agglomeration-conurbation (STA) and problems that are connected with infrastructural changes in the region. The article shows the results of theoretical researches in the sphere of territory and settlement spatial development. There is considered historical development of the settlement structure of the Samara guberniya. The infrastructural support of the forming the Greater Samara megapolis is considered in the dialectical contradiction of internal and external factors in cooperation with the global transport map. There are made practical proposals of a territorial settlement system formation of the Samara guberniya based on the development of related towns in the structure of the STA suburban belt with peripheral local rural settlement systems. There is considered the potential development of the STA subcenters (Samara-Arena, aerotropolis Kurumoch, Krasny Yar, Kinel, Dubovy Umeet, Chapaevsk, Bezenchuk) and potential contact points of the STA suburban belt with local settlement systems (Dimitrovgrad, Otradniy, Pestravka, Novospasskoye, etc). The authors of this article were tasked to explain the principles of phased development for the near, medium and long-term perspective of the STA transport and communication framework. Currently, there are strong centripetal trends of movement from rural settlement systems to subcentres of STA. To create the opposite centrifugal movement, it is proposed to develop capital residential and industrial construction in potential contact points of the STA suburban belt with rural peripheral resettlement systems, creating employment for high-qualified labour. On the 2nd phase, these traffic flows should be strengthened by high-speed railway transport. The authors propose variants of the placement of multimodal transport and logistics hubs (Multihub) in promising “growth poles”, which are planned to be at the contact points of the peripheral suburban belt STA with local rural settlement systems. In the long term it is suggested to identify areas of town-planning reserves for the formation of Multi-hubs in order to include the Samara guberniya in the structure of the currently planned international transport corridors Europe - America and the Arctic – Southwestern Asia. There is emphasized the development of the south and the south- east direction, the perspective development of the transit railways network.