Historical cities as an object of protection: approaches to the preservation of urban planning heritage in Russia

Natalia Marushina,Anna Nazarova,Igor Pasechnik,A Zheltenkov,A Mottaeva

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202016405012

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Abstract

The historical city is one of the most complex objects of research, being a “living” organism, the environment of modern man, a combination of natural and man-made, tangible and intangible elements. The relevance of the study of the historical and urban planning environment is caused by the ongoing search for the most effective approaches to preserving the heritage of cities and the sustainable development of their territories. Systematic and structural analysis of such a phenomenon as a historical city, identification of internal relationships of elements that make up the historical and urban planning environment; comparison of existing tools for the protection of urban planning heritage and determination of the most effective mechanism for its preservation, proposed by modern Russian legislation. Based on the analysis of existing tools for the protection of the historical urban planning environment, the authors propose to consider the procedure for determining the boundaries and subject of protection of historical settlements as one of the aspects of the implementation of the international approach to the preservation of historic urban landscapes (HUL approach), and identify ways to improve the national tools in the field of urban planning heritage protection.

Highlights

Modern understanding of the historical city goes far beyond its interpretation as a simple set of objectively existing elements – planning structure, development and formed compositional connections
An important area of research has been the development of approaches to the study and analysis of the practice of preserving the historical urban environment and its individual components [1622]
The historical urban environment can be defined as a system formed by several components

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Introduction

Modern understanding of the historical city goes far beyond its interpretation as a simple set of objectively existing elements – planning structure, development and formed compositional connections. With the development of the international system for the protection of cultural and natural heritage, more and more attention has been paid to the comprehensive preservation of the human environment [1, 5,6,7], urban territories development [8,9,10] and problems of urban planning regulation [11,12,13,14,15]. As a result of a long study of the urban planning heritage and the accumulation of significant experience in the field of its preservation, the idea of the historical city as a special object of protection was formed. In the context of accelerated urbanization processes, which often provoke social tension, the definition of approaches and detailed elaboration of national tools that will ensure the preservation and sustainable development of the historical and urban planning environment are extremely relevant

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