The Sustainability of the Urban Agglomeration in Ensuring the Regional Development

Abstract

The article is aimed at disclosing features and elaborating criteria for sustainability of agglomeration in ensuring the regional development. The peculiarities of agglomeration formation are disclosed and its main subsystems are defined. The term of «sustainable development of agglomeration» is formulated and the criteria for ensuring this development are indicated. The necessity of institutional provision of sustainable agglomeration development within the region is substantiated. The organizational provision of implementation of the strategy of ensuring sustainable development of agglomerations is presented. The author indicates the need to elaborate a qualitatively new approach to ensuring sustainable development of agglomeration, which should provide for a coherent dynamism in achieving a balance between the rational use of socio-ecological-economic resources, their reproduction, which will eventually impact the achievement of an acceptable status of socio-ecological-economic security, provision of an effective integration of the subsystems of cities, development of agglomerative connections.

Keywords

• agglomeration
• sustainability
• regional development
• rationality
• security