Home – Home – Jornals – Geography and Natural Resources 2021 number 3

At present, in the context of the growing severity of environmental and socio-economic problems, information connectivity and ever more frequently occurring crisis phenomena, there is an acute shortage of new ways and tools for understanding and management of increasingly expanding urban systems (urban geosystems). In the world, there are still no unified well-established recommendations for building an ideal self-organizing city. However, the previously developed and proven approaches to management of self-organizing systems can become effective tools for stimulating a further progressive development of urban geosystems of any level of complexity and hierarchy and building the city of the future. We examine the general principles of self-organization and self-development of urban landscapes of urbogeosystems in the management system using, as an example, a large metropolis - Moscow. The concepts of “self-organization of landscapes” and “self-development of landscapes” in the format of modern concepts are analyzed and the application of these concepts is given to study the functioning of urban planning systems. Examples of the modern practice of the regulation and evolution of urban development to improve the beautification and comfort of living of the population as well as the potential of the city and individual communities for self-development and self-organization are given. It is shown that the manifestation of self-organization processes is closely linked with the structuring of information and the drive of the metropolis to the category of a “smart” city, which contributes to the establishment of new forms of self-government, an increase in population safety in the context of a pandemic of viral diseases, the effective use of budgetary and other funds and the preservation of the historical and cultural heritage and architectural appearance of the city, and, ultimately, the establishment of close ties between authorities, on the one hand, and the population, on the other. It is found that the specific features in the development of urban geosystems imply that their behavior obeys the achievement of particular goals; in addition, they are able to change their structure in the course of their functioning, i.e. to self-organize. The more effective the processes of self-development are, the more useful information and accumulated experience the urban geosystem uses by making a purposeful selection.