Review article

The article is devoted to consideration of fundamental bases of the Russian system of town-planning education (philosophical, legal, institutional, regulatory, scientific and methodological aspects). Scientific and methodological fundamentals are determined by successive generalization of the methodological experience of the XX century, during which there took place the formation of the Russian urban planning education. The basic scientific and methodical principles include such concepts as multidisciplinarity, urban planning autonomy as a scientific field, multi-level composition, multimodel structure.