DIRECTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF RESORT TOWNS IN THE ZONE OF INFLUENCE OF A LARGE CITY (FOR EXAMPLE TOWNSHIP VELIKY LYUBEN, LVIV REGION)

Abstract

A large number of healing mineral springs have been discovered in Subcarpathia already in the first half of the XIX century. This created a demand to set up a lot of resort towns. Among those, Truskavets and Velykyi Lubin have been wellrecognized across Europe at the end of the XIX century. During Soviet period (1960–1990 years) large public sanatoriums have been built and small resort towns of Lviv region turned into major Ukrainian balneological centers.Ukraine becoming independent, difficult political and economic transformations affected the medical and economic potential of resorts in the region. Most of them started to decline and now require effective strategies for urban regeneration.Effective medical treatment sets high requirements for the landscape and spatial organization of the resort towns and demands a whole range of measures to bring the recreational areas to a far better aesthetic appearance and efficient functionality. First of all, it is needed to reconstruct the historic resort parks on the basis of historical, architectural and dendrological studies. It is also important to enlarge the green areas and expand the functionality of landscape and recreational areas. Accordingly, resort towns should be planned in deep interconnection with the whole system of landscape and recreational territories of the town. The authors of the article propose to disregard the monofunctional health-therapeutic use of these territories and refocus them on the recreational multifunctionality on the basis of private businesses. This approach is far more consistent with current socio- economic changes of society. Therefore, there are truly favorable conditions for the implementation of the principle of recreational multifunctionality when working over master plans of this towns.The article describes the principles of their functional, planning, and architectural reorganization, and presents findings and recommendations on this topic.