Architectural-Typological Priorities for Sustainable Development of the Urban Environment

The research task of this paper was to identify the topical areas of improving the quality of urban environment and to generalize of approaches to ensuring its sustainable development. International and Russian trends in the formaition formation and the optimization of infrastructure of community facilities (rental housing, health care, education, culture and art, physical training, sport and tourism, social maintenance) and engineering-communal services of cities was are treated. The authors revealed certain regularities between demographic, economic and recreational capacity of territories and the consumer properties of the urban environment. Att ention is focused on the issues of quantitative correspondence of the network of necessary infrastructure facilities and improvement of the quality of design solutions. Current trends that correspond to the tasks of reducing the anthropogenic impact of buildings on the environment are also shown.