Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Urban Areas Spatial Development

Abstract

The established experience of socio-economic development is largely based on the territory’s urbanization. Cities are becoming the main points of development. They concentrate managerial, financial and human resources, and create the prerequisites for a post-industrial shift. The remaining territories – satellite towns, rural areas – have become supporting and supplying elements of urban development. However, any urbanization process has its limits: the intensive path of city development at a certain stage begins to fail and ceases to create favorable economic and social effects. The negative consequences of such growth - from environmental to infrastructural ones - are increasing. The purpose of the article is to analyze the evolution of methodological, theoretical aspects of spatial, agglomeration development, urban agglomeration development under the influence of driving forces. Spatial development is an activity in the direction of managing the territories devopment, as an integral object of regulation, which includes the tools of public administration. Urban agglomeration is a highly developed spatial form of integrated cities. This happens when relations between cities shift from competition to competition and cooperation. There is no unity in methodological approaches in the ongoing research on agglomeration, spatial development, and competition. The current review examines the main approaches to the allocation of productive forces, the theory of regional development, spatial, agglomeration development, in an attempt to give a theoretically and practically justified definition of territorial development in the context of increased interregional competition. The formation of a methodology for studying the problems of spatial development of the national economy and the development of an effective strategy for agglomeration development in the national economy should be largely carried out in the direction of an organic combination of various theories of space research and the use of appropriate tools for their practical implementation. The definition of the methodological foundations of the territory is not only of scientific and theoretical importance. The territory in the market conditions is the subject of economic relations. The management of an integrated territory and agglomeration in the face of increased interregional competition for resources and consumers requires the definition of the organic structure of the region - the system and mechanisms of territorial management, including organization, planning, regulation and control.