Features of design code formation in the structure of a post-industrial city

Abstract

The formation of the city design code is considered as an objective and global phenomenon that has developed in many developed European countries in recent decades. Being primarily aimed at achieving visual comfort, the design code in the conditions of the post-industrial city acquires a new color, covering the entire subject-spatial environment of the "urban planning ground floor" as a space at the level of the first two floors of the building, equipped with street furniture and a visual communication system. The city design code is studied as an integral element of urban design, which, in turn, determines the features of the urban environment, its components, supports natural and cultural components based on belonging to a certain place. At the same time, the characteristics of a "place" directly depend on its placement in a specific structural element of the city, and the creation of a design code, thus, should be based on a historical-genetic analysis - a kind of evolutionary study - of the city's historical-genetic code. Based on the understanding of the modern city as a complex, open, hierarchically organized system, the concept of forming a design code is proposed as a system forming element of the general system of urban design, which is aimed at overcoming the negative legacy of industrial society and humanizing the urban environment and is projected onto the structural and planning organization of the city in accordance with the genetic code.