Impact of Legal Factors on Urban Morphology and Development

The work contains analysis of the morphological features of mass housing construction areas of the 2nd half of the 20th century(by the example of the city of Samara), the regulations in force during the period of construction, the current situation with the ownership of land plots and in the field of housing area management. The chapter clarifies the problem of research. The 2nd chapter contains analysis of the cadastral maps of cities in Russia and abroad and identifies various plot division techniques in the mass housing construction areas of the 2nd half of the 20th century. A brief description of the plot division concepts relevant to the idea of sustainable urban development and the problems of current regulatory framework are given. In the 3d chapter a modeling of a particular micro district territory development is carried out, based on two fundamentally different approaches to the plot division of a housing block "plots following a building's footprint" and "continuous plot division". As a result of the experiment, the priority of the 2nd approach is justified and recommendations to improve the regulatory framework are given. Master's work demonstrates the importance of plot division as a basis for a real urban policy.