ABSTRACT
the issue of urbanizing large areas must be studied in light of several factors: landscape and geology, transportation, society and demographics, economics, and the environment. The impact of these factors, specifically the change that they cause, is going to set the direction for urbanizing any territory, regardless of size, especially in the modern reality, when we no longer operate under the command-based, planned economy system. This gives top priority to predictive urban planning. We would like to offer an original model of urban development, as exemplified by a specific area: the Baikal–Angara Settlement System, which is located within a triangle formed by three transport and communication axes, namely the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Baikal–Amur Mainline, and the western shore of Lake Baikal. Our model focuses on the territory’s essential urban planning framework, which includes the environmental, population, transportation, and agricultural framework. Consequently, the axes of the urban planning framework split the entire area into segments, or landscape and functional morphotypes, which differ by their economic specialization and the direction of urban development.
