Keyword: «urbanization»

Urbanization is a very topical subject of research. Actively exploring its social, economic, demographic, environmental aspects. Along with them very relevant is the perception of the urban environment in the structures of everyday experience of citizens. Daily life - one of the areas of human experience, characterized by a special form of perception and understanding of the world. The world of everyday life - it's not just the personal, private world of one individual and the objective world, common to all people experienced the same thing. Surrounding people live together not only in general for their world, but it includes as an integral part thereof. The physical existence of other people, their conscious life, the ability to communicate with them, cash social organization and culture - all this is an integral part of city life. By their actions, people define the world of life, their actions are focused on this world, it is a test of the effectiveness and action. Each person creates a world of his own life. Each individual creates their distinctive social and physical environments and that it responds. The modern city is an attractive place to stay, providing ample opportunity for the disclosure of the identity. The space of the city becomes the embodiment and personification of the modern lifestyle, outlook, as well as being rich in different possibilities of activities, saturation, social information, and cultural integration. Unchanged is the desire of citizens to own a house or apartment in an area with clean air, away from industrial enterprises, equipped with seating areas, landscaped courtyards, playgrounds and gardens. The physical space can contribute to a feeling of comfort, harmony and consistency with the human environment or, conversely, can cause feelings of alienation. With considerable social heterogeneity population of the city forms a single territorial entity. To varying degrees, all residents enjoy a whole city and its suburban area - a place of employment and recreation. To varying degrees, all citizens contribute to the formation of the urban environment, contributing to its territorial differentiation and giving its characteristic features. The city is artificially created object is a functional system for the implementation of the expanding needs. However, not only is the sense of the city. City - this is a special way to the maintenance and development of sociality, a method of preservation and reproduction of values and stereotypes, the creation and distribution of a special intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, traditional behavior. City, combining the people and their relationships with each other, various social institutions and organizations, building and civil engineering constructions, natural elements, and more, has some special properties are obvious, samopodtverzhdeniya ("autopoiesis of the city").

: the article considers definitions migration, urbanization, industrialization, discovers their rilationship, characterizes the featheres of the Soviet urbanization transition. Influence of urbanization on migration processes of the youth. The article gives the general characteristic of the economy of The Middle Volga region, the role of the youth in its development, its participation in the Komsomol construction projects. It considers the ratio of urban and rural youth on the basis of the materials of The Middle Volga, the phenomenon of soviet industrial enterprises.

The article presents the ecological problems of urbanized territories, the main sources of urban pollution are considered. The author notes the methods of maintaining ecological balance for each of them and enumerates the main measures for restoring ecological balance on the example of Belgorod region.

The article discusses the development of urbanization in the country, beginning in the second half of the 19th century and up to the present. The administrative and command system that dominated the country for decades, managed the process of urbanization extremely sluggishly and ineffectively, most often only ascertained the actual situation.

In article debatable questions of development of settlements of our country are considered. Questions of concentration of agricultural production in huge agroholdings are brought up. Consequences of such policy pursued by the management of the present Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation are investigated. Comparison of the organization of agricultural production in modern Russia and the countries of OECD is given. The polemic lifted by the Mayor of Moscow S. Sobyanin concerning need of concentration of the population of the country for million-plus cities continues. The factors counteracting at such policy to development of the country come to light.