The issues of improving the methodological foundations on urban planning based on the requirements of “smart” planning and managing sustainable development of territories are considered. The concepts of “smart urban planning”, “urban planning information platform”, “digital twin” of a territory and “cyber physical urban development system” are defined. A brief review of the world experience in adopting “smart” technologies for urban development is given. The paper sets the long-term problems associated with theoretical and practical development in the field. Finally, the authors propose the concept of “smart urban planning”, aimed at providing comfortable and safe living conditions. It provides fundamental principles of goal-setting, planning and adopting the sustainable territorial development using information and communication technologies; a theoretical model of the urban planning information platform based on automation methods, adaptation conditions, as well as describing the “digital twin” layers of an urban development object.

The urban planning information platform, including the “digital twin” model, has become the basis for the integration of various urban planning and sector-wide approaches and a tool for progressive spatial planning, design, and management of the sustainable development of territories. The study resulted in the identification of several “smart urban planning” aspects as a promising direction in the development of the theory and practice of urban planning. The article gives a brief description of the modern global experience in digital forecasting, programming, and design of the spatial system. It discloses the provisions of strategic urban planning, modeling the graphic identity of a territory, and master planning taking into account digital information systems and information and communication technologies. The authors propose to separate the concepts of “territorial” and “spatial”, taking into account their differences and tasks. They determine perspective tasks in the field of the development of urban planning information systems and “digital twins” aimed at spatial planning and modeling. They consider the theoretical provisions of predictive probabilistic modeling; initiative, institutional and participatory planning, taking into account the interests of residents, business, scientific and public institutions, as well as the tasks of creating a comfortable, safe and landscaped living environment.

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A critical review of urban planning scientific aspects of the study of the globalization of settlement systems, including the impact of cross-border and transcontinental links on global urban and interethnic integration and communication processes, is presented. A brief description of the evolution of antagonistic urban planning concepts of studying the trends in the organization and development of macro-regional and global forms of settlement, their interrelationships, and interdependencies, as well as an analysis of the impact of these concepts on the formation of global communication relations, is given. Urban planning is defined as an interdisciplinary science of complex forecasting and planning of world settlement systems and their elements. The interrelation of the seven “principles–compromises” as urban planning principles of ensuring a sustainable balance in the interests of present and future generations is presented. Two urban planning methods of conflict resolution within the framework of the problem under consideration are proposed, based on the modeling of territories of partnership relations and the formation of global settlement based on the development of the uniqueness of territories.