The article considers the prospects for the development of the territory of transformation of the natural and ecological framework of urban and rural settlements of the Vsevolozhsk municipal district in the Leningrad region in the zone of influence of the high-speed highway KAD-2. The analysis of the study territory was carried out, the ecological framework of the territory, the existing transport framework were considered, the urbanization nodes most susceptible to the influence of the high-speed highway were identified with the study of the urbanization process on the specified sections of the planned KAD-2 in different time periods with a threshold of 10 years, changes in natural components and transformation of functional zoning, development of the transport framework were studied and the problems of the territory were determined. The analysis made it possible to formulate the main conclusions for regional standards, for general plans of urban and rural settlements and for STP (territorial planning schemes).

Keywords: urban development, natural and ecological framework, high-speed highway KAD-2, territorial planning, urbanization nodes

The presented article analyzes modern ways of qualitative assessment of agricultural territories in the framework of interaction within the boundaries of zones of influence of rural network structure, structural and functional interaction within such phenomenon as rural tourism, taken together and in the context of individual principles and directions of it in the projection of the territories of the reference settlement and the surrounding area.

Keywords: rural network structure, rural agglomeration, rural tourism, ethno-tourism, green (village) tourism, agrotourism, gastronomic tourism

The presented article highlights the problems identified during the study of such a new phenomenon in the urban planning sphere as rural agglomerations of the Russian Federation on the example of the Leningrad region, as a set of intermunicipal urban planning relationships within one or more municipal districts of the Leningrad region, as well as the need to take into account these relationships, taking into account the peculiarities of the cultural landscape, as a set of accumulated valuable agricultural territories, combined with the experience of industrial, cultural and urban development operation of these territories.

Keywords: rural agglomeration, cultural landscape, small urban agglomeration, qualimetric landscape method