Sustainable development of the territory: the role of urban soils

Shaping a sustainable development of the urban territorial system is considered through the ecological framework concept. The concept states that it is green planting which determines the ecological and functional significance of the territory parts linked by the pedosystem. The authors assessed the soil cover of main town parks constituting the Khabarovsk ecological framework; it was shown that urbanization has resulted not only in the transformation of natural landscapes, but has also led to their local destruction.