Methodological issues of megalopolis management

The article is of theoretical and methodological nature and allows you to look at the methodological problems of managing a modern metropolis from various theoretical-economic and conceptual-philosophical perspectives. The authors consider various approaches to understanding the specifics of the urban environment and global social shifts connected with an increase of the concentration of the population of various countries within large megalopolises and a shrinkage of economic space; they also analyze the socio-economic, cultural and worldview aspects predetermined by these tendencies. A distinctive feature is a systematic view of the processes taking place in megalopolises under the influence of modern trends in informatization and digitalization of social development. The article considers the megalopolis as an object of scientific knowledge, assesses the relationship of urban studies, as an extremely important modern interdisciplinary science with other sciences, which makes it possible to understand the internal laws of the development of large cities, and presents the current trends and contradictions of their development.

public administration, megalopolis, regional development, integrated development, self-organization, management methodology