Prospects for Formation of Urban Nuclei near Transport Hubs of the Moscow Railway Ring Stations

This thesis on the research of the Prospects for formation of urban nuclei near transport hubs of Moscow Little Ring Railway stations aims to explore current urban projects in the field of solving transportation problems and renovation of industrial territories of the Median areas. Is the renovation of industrial zones close to sides of transportation hubs development based on Ring Railway the factor of the formation of new urban nuclei? The aim of the study is to analyze the existing projects that forming activity centers on the sides of the existing industrial areas next to the new transportation hubs and identify the formation factors of urban nuclei. The main research method is the Irregularly-zoned model of Alexander A. Vysokovskiy which is applied standardized grid where the cell size is sufficient to determine the formation of new nuclei activity in Moscow. The results of this analysis clearly identified future centers of activity that will change their hierarchical levels, but they will not form a clear centers system with the perspective development of multifunctional areas. Due to the lack of territory renovation planning projects for the most of the industrial zones, on the one hand, it affects on the absence of radical changes in the system of centers, but on the other – there is an opportunity to adjust these projects in enhancing business and commercial functions. There is also a stable overall amount of the urban nuclei, with a slight increase of the centers of the 1st and 2nd levels, and also a slight reducing of the amount of the 3rd level centers. This may indicate a positive trend of strengthening relevant urban nuclei in conjunction with the formation of a new component of city's “urban skeleton” – the transport system of the Median areas.