Economic-legal content of urban development activity in Rostov region: historical aspect

The problem of urban development is one of the key problems for almost any modern city, especially a large megalopolis. Ancient cities with centuries-old construction, multiple cultural and technical-communal layers face additional challenges in their attempts to harmonize the architectural environment of the city and the space of already built-up territories with the new objects that are often built in the already organized city landscape. In connection to this, it is impossible not to turn to various, including the economic-legal ones, aspects of urban development. The history of urban development activity in Russia can be divided into 4 main stages on the basis of historical periods and tendencies of country’s development: from the ancient times to the XV century, XVI-XVIII century, XIX - beginning of XX century, XX century. Each of these periods posed urban development with specific tasks.