Аннотация:Agricultural and forest lands near settlements are main reserve for expansion of urban areas. Thus, within 148.5 thousand hectares of lands added to Moscow city territory in 2012 72.2 thousand hectares or 48% were occupied by agricultural and forest lands. Urban areas are characterized by excessively high intensity of land use, land depletion, deterioration in environmental quality and decline in sustainability of urban development. The paper presents results of analysis of urban land use planning system in interests of urban territories sustainable development. The object of this study is lands included into Moscow, which are planned to be developed in the coming decades. The authors
propose an algorithm for urban development of such areas which takes into account quality of land. Project calculations for areas under development were carried out for Shchapovskoye settlement in New Moscow as an example. In addition, the paper covers aspects of land management when developing agricultural lands within cities. The authors developed a classification of agricultural land according to a criterion “suitability for urban development”. The suggested classification has been applied to achieve objectives of planning urban land use development, determining order of construction on agricultural lands within the system of sustainable urban development management.