This is a unique study guide, because it’s for the first time that a manual contains a comprehensive set of interrelated components of town planning activity regulation against the backcloth of a fledging real estate market with due account for foreign practices and the most recent Russian legislation. The study guide targets students and post-graduates who specialize in law, economy, management, urban development regulation, architecture and land development; experts who intend to further develop their skills in the field of housing and utility sector and local development planning; staff members of federal, regional and local administrations, as well as all those who take an interest in the following issues: legal, economic and planning support for the development of cities and other areas; design and construction works.