This article explores the interlinkages between the stages of urban development, improvement and “domestic” urbanization. The issue is considered in the context of historical, economic, socio-demographic, environmental and sanitary factors. The work justifies that the study of processes of agglomeration development of urban areas makes it possible to predict the prospects of formation of engineering and transport infrastructures, to identify the most effective and balanced solution in the context of sustainable development of urbanized areas.

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Abstract. The article investigates modern home tendencies of transformation of university complexes. This transformation is based on the carcass of interactions built in the structure of innovative activity and is a prerequisite of the development of the forming university clusters. The main prerequisites of transformations in architectural and spatial environment of universities against the background of the reforms in higher education in Russia are examined. A project experiment grounding the necessity of architectural and spatial changes of university buildings and complexes is described.

Up-to-date studies carried out by sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, cultural scientists and other theorists who study society as a social system are often based on the issue on the revolutionary changes introduced by the latest high-end technologies into the processes of communication between people. Communicative, technological communication fundamentally changes the understanding of many processes and types of sociocultural relations. In the future, these changes will fundamentally alter the approach to the formation of the urban environment in general and communication spaces in particular. This paper presents an attempt to consider the impact of virtual communication on the city. The positive and negative aspects of these changes are considered and, ultimately, an attempt on the formation of a spatial communication model in the modern city is made. The options for a comprehensive assessment of the social quality of the urban environment are described. The authors’ classification of the communication spaces of the modern city became a foundation for a study aimed to identify potential locations of these environmental objects and systems. The hypothesis of a phased creation of hybrid spatial ensembles within the architectural units constituting the environment for various types of interpersonal communication, in the form of a synthesis of media technologies and urban planning is generated.