The monograph examines philosophical and sociocultural problems associated with the theoretical understanding of the concepts of the phenomenon of the city, the experience of building and developing the city in various historical eras. The comprehensive approach of the authors made it possible to reveal the relationship between the ideas of creating cities and their historical and modern appearance, to determine the role of sociocultural factors in the planning and arrangement of cities, to identify modern problems of urbanization, the main sociocultural problems of urban planning.