REGARDING THE CURRENT STATE OF URBAN PLANNING AND REGIONAL ACTIVITIES IN UKRAINE

This research paper examines the peculiarities of urban and regional planning activities in modern conditions. The importance of studying the preliminary stages of project research and educational activities that form a sustainable basis for urban planning and regional planning is considered: the field of economics, sociology, geography, ecology and engineering. It is determined how the instability of their development affects the sustainable development of the human-environmental settlement system as a whole. The existing forms of settlement, such as settlement, suburban, group-territorial community, and their place in the general system of settlement - region, country - are considered. As a strategy of modern development, the paper considers the process of sociologization of the space in which society lives. The current state of public interests in the space in which people live, work, and rest is considered. The main legislative and regulatory institutions of the advanced European countries that have managed to put urban planning and regional activities as one of the main prospects for development are presented. The importance of creating the Urban Planning Code of Ukraine as a sustainable law is beyond doubt. The author proposes a model of planning organization of Ukraine in the structure of the European space as a model of integration. The main challenges of today's society to urban planning activities are formed: competitiveness, environmental friendliness, mobility, sociologization, sustainable urbanization. At the heart of the challenges posed by today's urban planning activities should always be a person and the space in which he or she organizes his or her existence.