Abstract.The purpose of the author's research is to determine the actual content of sustainable architectural design for suburban residential development. In accordance with the methodology of area sustainable development the traditional architectural design according to the rules and regulations is completed with additional approaches and methods. As a result, methods of bio-positive design of buildings have been studied and defined, including: the principle of planning transformations, the use of environmentally friendly, local building materials and design concepts, energy-efficient architectural design, the use of alternative energy in building operation, the design of the energy intake and accumulationsystems, the architectural and landscape design that ensures stable functioning of autonomous, sustainable biosystems on the site, nonwaste functioning of architectural objects, introduction of waste disposal systems in the project.

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.

The article explores the actual cluster approach to the planning of agglomeration territories sustainable development. The authors in their research investigate the notion of sustainable territorial development as the development of urban planning structures basing on the frame of the educational, industrial, financial and economic information exchange nets built in the structure of the agglomeration. Such a subject-oriented frame must not be formed as rigid, constant, and static; its flexibility and variability, complementarity and interchangeability of its knots and elements allow the urban planning system sustaining and developing itself. The conclusion is drawn in the article that the urban planning development policy of Samara-Togliatti agglomeration (basing on cluster strategies) will enable the universities of the region (including the flagship university, national research university) to form the platform of innovative cluster infrastructure of the region and agglomeration.

The article deals with topical issues of town-planning design of the agricultural cluster in a big city as an integral part of the designing methodology for sustainable development of urban areas. The research subject is connected with ecological principles of town-planning, historical features of urban area development, agricultural settlement and specialization of the agricultural sector. The purpose of the study is to develop the town-planning concept of the agricultural cluster in a big city, the functional structure of its elements and to define principles of their organization within the context of methodology of area sustainable development. As a result of the research a number of principles for forming architectural and town-planning structures of the agricultural cluster have been formulated, including: the principle of sectorial townplanning, the principle of urban and rural areas integration, the principle of ecologization of cluster strategies and architectural and town-planning solutions, the principle of integrating landscape, agro-landscape and housing development, the principle of bio-positive design of buildings and complexes.

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.