The study is dedicated to problems of suburb rural settlements on the way to sustainable development. Metropolises and suburb rural territories often have as common interests so contradictions which sharpened last time. Nowadays the suburban zone became with zone of common interests of metropolis and region whose development is possibly only on equal terms of legal using of lands. Activity, social aspects, organization of rest, transport and engineering communications and pollutions there are nowhere near full list of common interests. Chaotic suburbanization dependent on defects of legislation and non-compliance with actions of different management subjects and landowners creates difficult social ecological and building problems which will sharpen in the nearest future in suburban zones of Ukrainian cities. Modern conditions dependent on transformation of functional planning organization of suburb rural settlements. The most important condition of stability’s suburb rural settlements providing is choice of its strategy of development. Definition of functional type of suburb rural settlement as strategy of its development dependents on range of top-priority factors of its development. Model and methodology of estimation of top-priority factors of its development are offered for choice of functional type. The directions of a reshaping of suburb rural settlements are defined. Perspective types of suburb rural settlements are offered.

пригородные сельские поселения

город-центр

пригородная зона

metropolis

functional type

suburbanization

suburban sone

приоритетные факторы

top-priority factors

функциональный тип

suburb rural settlements