Abstract
In the context of heterogeneous dynamics, the issues of spatial contraction or transformation of territories acquire special importance in solving regional problems of sustainable development. The construction of the models of transformation is considered on the example of studying migration dynamics and the specifics of the outflow of population from the Chelyabinsk region, one of the leading industrially developed territorial formations of the Urals. A multilevel analysis of the migration balance values is associated with updating a number of methodological foundations of the study of regional dynamics and the adaptation of visualization tools - the use of graphic information. Based on the results of the classification of the territories, along with the growth and contraction models, it is proposed to form a certain intermediate class of “spatial reconstruction” models.