Городская агломерация как правовая категория: постановка проблемы

Журнал российского права. 2020. № 8. С. 141–156.

Галиновская Е. А., Kichigin N. V.

The article is devoted to the study of the features and prospects of defining and fixing the legal regime of urban agglomerations in the legislation. Currently, the importance of urban agglomerations as points of growth and catalysts for regional development is emphasized at the state level. At the same time, the expansion of urban development and the settlement of people, which is characteristic of agglomeration, is a phenomenon that needs not only support, due to obvious positive manifestations, but also regulation by the public authorities. The current insufficient perception of the law and state administration of the features of urban agglomeration development, especially various types of connections between settlements and nearby territories, is one of the factors of conflict development of suburban areas, violation of their established legal regime, uncontrolled reduction of agricultural and forest land. At the same time, without taking into account the conducted research, the significance of rural settlements, small towns, and suburban green areas for socio-economic development is not so rarely diminished, with an exaggeration of the role of large cities. It should be recognized that the land, urban planning and other branches of legislation involved in the formation of the legal framework for spatial development were not fully prepared for this challenge. The purpose of this work is to develop proposals for improving the legal regulation of urban agglomerations. To achieve this goal, the tasks were set to study the concept, features, and legal essence of agglomerations as a socio-territorial phenomenon, and urban agglomerations as their main variety. The article describes the author's legal definition of urban agglomeration, as well as proposals for improving urban planning and other branches of legislation in order to increase the effectiveness of public management of agglomerations.

Keywords: социально-экономическое развитие, socio-economic development, агломерация, городские поселения, сельские поселения, agglomeration, градостроительное законодательство, urban agglomerations, rural settlements, городская агломерация, земельное законодательство, стратегия пространственного развития, spatial development strategy, сельская агломерация, rural agglomeration, urban planning legislation, land legislation, urban settlements