“…From the point of view of an economist, a city is primarily a relevant set of various business entities located on a certain compact territory. Therefore, urban settlement can be considered from different positions, which significantly actualizes the modern issue of increasing the efficiency of regulation of the relevant urban planning processes in domestic regions in particular and in the modern Ukrainian state as a whole [8]. In the regional economy, the meaning of the concept of «city» lies primarily in its characteristics as an economic object from the position of an issues and development of sciences SECTION 1.…”