ENVIRONMENTAL AND TOWN-PLANNING PROBLEMS OF TRANSFORMATION OF SETTLEMENT IN THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD (ON THE EXAMPLE OF MOSCOW REGION)

Abstract

We report the results of geographical research related to the environmental aspects of urban settlement organization in the Moscow region in the post-Soviet period. A number of reasons of modern town-planning problems and their consequences for formation of a comfortable environment are analyzed. Some new tendencies of transformation of a network of settlements near Moscow, having various ecological consequences both for local population and for new inhabitants, are revealed.