THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SUBURBAN ZONE BOUNDARIES DEFINITION

The article examines the issue of determining the boundaries of the suburban zone, especially the suburban agriculture. Scientists and specialists, economists, geographers, demographers, town planners engaged in the theory and practice of forming suburban area, determining their boundaries, proposed different approaches, and therefore there is no generally recognized unified methodology and methods. In the article the approaches of scientists concerning the definition of the suburban area boundaries are analyzed: the radius of production and transportation of agricultural products, pendulum migrations, functional connections, the city as a center of gravity, the application of normative indicators, the location of suburban buildings and places for mass recreation of the population. Nowadays the issue remains relevant and open. To solve it, one should pay attention to the effectiveness of the ties between the city and the adjacent territory. The suburban area is formed under the influence of the city, its territory can be determined only on the basis of integrated accounting of functional ties with the city, the tightness and stability of these links, and the appointment of suburban space to meet the needs of the city. The main goal when allocating the border of the suburban area should be to consider it as a territory in the suburban space, which functions with the city as a whole. For this, it is necessary: to conduct a general analysis of the development of the territories surrounding the city, including the study of demography, economics, production, land use, ecology on the basis of statistical information; substantiation of factors and indicators affecting the emergence of ties between the city and the suburbs; the establishment of functions; the allocation of territories located in the zone of influence of the city; the definition of the border of the suburban area on the basis of complex zoning, which reflects the main functional connections.