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City: Legal and Urbanological Factors of Digitalization
The purpose of the article is to identify current interdisciplinary scientific and practical problems in the context of the digital transformation of city administration within the emerging domain of legal science (legal urbanology). Given the complex nature of the object under study, a comprehensive study of city life requires an integrated methodological approach based on a synthesis of the findings of the legal, economic, sociological and political research factors. A significant role in the methodological provision of the study is given to the integrated approach, which allows regarding the city as a dynamically developing open social system with a complex hierarchy and developed social institutions and relationships. The city, being the most important element of the system of resettlement and human life, a key link in the formation of states, in the development of mankind in general, and scientific and technological progress in particular, now, like all other social systems, has entered the period of implementation of the smart city concept. Actual complex problems of legal regulation of the legal relations system in cities, including the social, economic, environmental aspects of their manifestation, described in the theories of various humanities in the framework of legal urbanology, are considered. On the example of the city’s environmental problems, a specific complex structure of the phenomenon is shown, requiring study with the involvement of various branches of knowledge. It’s concluded that the modernization of modern society and its transition to a new digital paradigm affects all social spheres, but giving the degree of concentration of economic, political, social, informational and other resources in cities, they act as an indicator of the ongoing transformation of the role of cities in the development of the country.