Methods of Allocation of Urban Centers

The paper considers a set of methods that solve the problem of identifying central places in the current urban environment. The problems of research are caused by the need to consider the proximity and location of the actual central places of cities and settlements in almost all processes of planning development and transformation of the environment. Errors in determining the location of the territory to be transformed in the system of central places of the city lead to significant financial and temporary losses. However, there are currently no common approaches to defining central locations. The paper presents the result of research on the systematization of methods based on information about the distribution system in the city, the placement of city services, as well as information about the actual activities of citizens based on spontaneous data. The developed methods are summarized in a general application scenario and experimentally demonstrated on the data of the city of Miass.