ABSTRACT:
The article discusses the sustainability of urbanization, the impact of digitalization on urban life and the impact of the digital environment on the sustainability of urbanization. The need for a quantitative assessment of all the main manifestations of urbanization in order to identify the possibilities of urbanization processes in the digital environment shown. It has shown which manifestations of sustainable urbanism should meet the basic requirements for sustainability indicators. The need to study the diversity of urbanization processes in the digital environment based on the study of the diversity of economic, social and environmental characteristics of urban growth. Some factors that expand the technological capabilities of the information society in terms of supporting sustainable development described. One of the key indicators of the digital environment is the study of the possibility of reducing these costs in case of the level of transaction costs and ongoing urbanization. In the article stressed that the digital economy can reduce the asymmetry of market information. The initial steps taken in Azerbaijan to identify and implement the capabilities of sustainable urbanization processes in the digital environment described. The situation of the urban population with fresh food considered in connection with the food security aspect of sustainability of urbanization processes. Changes in the delivery of fresh products to the Baku agglomerate studied. For this, the indicator “weighted average distance of transportation” was proposed and its dynamics over 55 years estimated.

Keywords: digital environment, agglomeration, urbanization, sustainability, transaction costs

JEL classification: R51, F64