ISSUES OF ENSURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN AGLOMERATIONS: ECONOMIC-ECOLOGICAL AND STRATEGIC APPROACH

Abstract

This article examines the formation of urban agglomerations, systemic problems in their management, and mechanisms for ensuring sustainable development amidst the acceleration of globalization and urbanization processes. "Centrifugal" problems such as demographic pressure, transport collapse, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity arising in megacities as a result of increasing urbanization levels have been studied from an economic and analytical perspective