Regularities and tendencies of forming of multifunctional structure of urban landscapes in Belarus.

• Main Authors: Galina I. Martsinkevich, Iryna I. Shchasnaya
• Format: Article
• Language: Belarusian
• Published: Belarusian State University 2017-10-01
• Series: Журнал Белорусского государственного университета: География, геология
• Subjects: urban landscape; functional zone; map of urban landscapes; multifunctional structure of urban landscapes
• Online Access: https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/geography/article/view/809

Prerequisites and tendencies of development of urban landscapes are considered, regularities of forming of their multifunctional structure under the influence of economic and geopolitical factors throughout all history of development are revealed. A methodological basis of the research – system, historical and landscape scientific approaches. The main methods – cartographical, geoinformation, remote-sensing, zoning, regionalization, classification. The used materials – master plans, topographic maps of different scales and Landsat satellite images of cities of our republic (Grodno, Pinsk, Zhodino). Created maps of urban landscapes represent structure, hierarchy and specifics of distribution of various classification units (group of types, types) of city complexes. It is proved that every city has specific features of urban landscapes structure, that depends on lifetime, social and economic functions and planning. It is established that continuous process of development of urban settlements leads to expansion of set of their functions and complication of structure of city complexes. It is revealed that there is a natural increase in quantity of functional zones in cities from three during their origin (stronghold, roundabout town, faubourg) to six and more in the next centuries that involves complication of a specific variety and forming of multifunctional structure of urban landscapes. It is determined that a set of classification units of urban landscapes can be applied in practice of accomplishment of project and planning works, especially in case of development of detailed plans of cities as a basis for the analysis and assessment of an ecological condition of urban environment.