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28. Rasul Balaev, Matlab Ali Zadeh, Sevda Haji Zadeh: Capabilities of Urbanizosiya
29. Processes Resilience in the Digital Environment

INTRODUCTION
Urbanization is a complex and contradictory process. As the durability of these
processes is directly related to the quality of life, they are multifaceted, ensuring
stability requires a complex approach. Digitization, first of all, penetrates the lives of
cities and its place and role in the resilience of urbanization processes should be paid
attention. A unified approach to the processes taking place in the urban and digital
environment can be put in place. In our opinion, the discovery of the capacity to
withstand urbanization processes in the digital environment is an important issue. At
the same time, unfortunately, the work in this direction is not yet at the level.
Therefore, we consider it expedient to research on the discovery of opportunities for
the sustainability of urbanization processes in the digital environment and the
determination of prospects.

SUSTAINABILITY OF URBANIZATION PROCESSES: OPPORTUNITIES
AND THEIR DIGITAL CHARACTERISTICS
Quantitative assessment of all the main manifestations of urbanization is important
from the point of view of discovering the possibilities of its resilience. These
manifestations should be attributed, including the concentration of the population in
cities, the increase in the role of cities in all spheres of human life, industrial contact
of productive forces and the complexity of functions in the settlement network and
the integration of types of activities. The need for a quantitative assessment of all
major manifestations of urbanization can be determined by economic expediency
and efficiency criteria.

In the current situation, where the attitude to the quality of life in megacities and
large cities is ambiguous, expectations about the decline in the pace of urban
processes are not justified. From this point of view, indifference to forecasts about
the intensification of urbanization processes on a global scale is unacceptable. So
"today, 55% of the world's population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is
expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Projects show that urbanization, the gradual
shift in residence of the Homan population from rural to urban areas, combined with
the overall growth of the world's population could add another 2.5 billion people to
urban areas by 2050” [Revision of World Urbanization Prospects (2018)]. Currently,
even in countries with a declining population, cities such as migration, new
settlements with the status of a city, etc., an increase in spending is occurring.

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