V knige izucheny razlichnye aspekty transformatsii pochvennogo pokrova krupnykh promyshlennykh gorodov Yuzhnogo Urala - Orska i Novotroitska. Rassmatrivayutsya protsessy formirovaniya antropogennykh pochv, kolichestvennye parametry ikh prostranstvenno-vremennoy organizatsii i strukturno-funktsional"noy roli v urbogeosisteme. Bol"shoe vnimanie udeleno issledovaniyu profil"nogo raspredeleniya vazhneyshikh bazovykh svoystv gorodskikh pochv (morfologicheskikh, fiziko-khimicheskikh, khimicheskikh, bioekologicheskikh) s uchetom ikh polozheniya v prirodno-landshaftnoy i gradofunktsional"noy strukture gorodov. Poluchennaya v khode issledovaniy fakticheskaya informatsiya rassmatrivaetsya v kachestve predvaritel"nogo orientira dlya bolee ob"ektivnoy i nauchno obosnovannoy otsenki ekologicheskogo sostoyaniya pochvennogo pokrova i organizatsii pochvenno-ekologicheskogo monitoringa gorodskikh territoriy. Kniga adresovana shirokomu krugu chitateley: spetsialistam v oblasti pochvovedeniya, geoekologii, geografii, urboekologii i t. d., rabotnikam zemleustroitel"nykh i prirodookhrannykh organizatsiy, a tak zhe spetsialistam, zanimayushchimsya voprosami ekologicheskogo sostoyaniya gorodskoy sredy.