ECOLOGICAL REVITALIZATION ASPECTS OF ABANDONED INDUSTRIAL TERRITORIES AS A WAY OF STABILIZING THE ECOLOGICAL SITUATION ON POST-SOCIALIST KIEV SPACE

Abstract

In the XXI century, the city began to lose its appeal to people: the accumulation of elements of the artificial material world in the form of buildings and structures, increasing the number of abandoned industrial areas, the sharp deterioration of the environmental situation contributes to anti-urban trends and urban depression. Today there is an urgent problem of harmonization of human life and society in relation to the natural environment, so began to emerge architectural trends and currents, the main concept of which - unity with nature. But for the implementation of such projects aimed at stabilizing the ecological situation of the urban environment, the need for development of new territories has increased. In these conditions, the interest of depressed industrial urban enterprises is understandable, which can be fully included in the architectural environment of the city and adapted to the needs of modern society. Revitalization has become an important component of the new paradigm of renewal of the territorial space of Kyiv as a post-socialist city.
 It is established that in modern cities there are almost no free territories that could be used to increase the area of public spaces, landscaping and the formation of landscape and recreational areas. Attention began to attract degraded industrial areas - areas of the city, which under the influence of social, economic, political factors have lost their purpose, are not used for their original purpose and are abandoned. Former industrial areas have great urban potential. And the secondary use of degraded industrial buildings with the subsequent eco-revitalization of the surrounding space helps to simultaneously solve the problematic issues of economy, ecology and aesthetics in the process of city life.
 The article considers the concept of "ecorevitalization" as one of the elements of sustainable urban development policy aimed at preventing the development of urban areas, development of social and economic activities, ecological improvement of the environment and analyzes the ways of ecorevitation. It is established that landscaping is a search for ways to integrate wildlife with the artificial environment of human life.