URBANIZATION PROCESS AND URBOECOLOGICAL STATE OF CITIES IN UZBEKISTAN

Abstract. A comparative analysis of the concepts of human ecology, social ecology and urban ecology is carried out. The process of urbanization and urban ecological processes in Uzbekistan are analyzed. During the analysis, it was established that the slowness of urbanization processes in the republic, the weak formation of the territorial-urbanistic structure, as well as the relatively large number of urban settlements in some regions of the country are associated with natural conditions and the scale of space. It is concluded that the ecology of many cities is currently at the level of republican sanitary standards mainly due to the weak development of industrial production. Key words: human ecology, social ecology, urboecology, human settlement, city, urbanization, degree of urbanization, maximum permissible level, air pollution, freshwater quality.