In the system of specific territories of the city, one can identify the main varieties of planning units, for which planning and calculation parameters can be developed. Within such units, it is possible to solve the problems of preserving features traditional for certain zones of the city. Assessment of the residential territories of Moscow to determine the varieties of planning units of these territories allows us to distinguish two main stages of development of the city, within which territorial development was closely related to certain principles of the organization of the Situ.
By 1957. Moscow was mainly compact education, within the historical part of which mixed functional zoning has developed. Among the residential areas, the central part of the city can be allocated within the former chamber-college shafts with a valuable historically established planning structure and a large number of architectural monuments.
A special place as a monument of urban planning art occupies the core of the city within the Garden Ring. They differ qualitatively from the historical part of the city of the territory of the former Moscow outskirts (Marina Roshcha, Cherkizovo, Bogorodskoye), the planning organization of which is not of value, and the bulk of the development is the dilapidated housing fund. These areas were partially reconstructed in the prewar years. And finally, the territories of mass housing construction of the 50s can be allocated (sand streets, Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, quarters of the South-West, N. Cheryomushki, Izmailovo, etc.).In the 60s, the territory of Moscow increased 2.5 times and spread within the new administrative border of the Moscow Ring Road.