The purpose of the article is to analyze the domestic and foreign experience of updating the urban environment and infrastructure. The development of Almaty and the suburban territory should be based on detailed and comprehensive urban ecodiagnostics, the achievement of environmental and urban planning balance, the introduction of advanced and environmentally acceptable technologies and materials in construction, on modern architectural solutions, which contributes to convergence - rapprochement, the unification of all processes and factors of urban planning activities in order to create a favorable environmental environment. Almaty, which has been actively implementing convergence over the past years (sometimes with great costs) in the form of the transformation of the zone of special urban planning regulation (ZOGR), inevitably has a problem: to remain a competitively capable metropolis in a constantly changing world. The design of urban landscapes takes place according to the type of natural, urban planning processes do not violate natural laws and the creation of man and nature takes place.