Review article

It is pointed out that in the federal legislation at present, legal norms of urban planning regulation and development of the urban agglomeration are missing, and even the concept of urban agglomeration is not included. To fill this gap, the author outlines the main provisions of the legal mechanism of territorial planning of urban agglomeration and provides an original legal definition for it. The proposal to concentrate the territory planning of urban agglomerations at the regional level is substantiated. A number of amendments are offered for the introduction into the Town Planning Code of the Russian Federation for improving the legal provision for the territorial planning of urban agglomerations.