HUMANITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AVAILABILITY OF LIVING

Abstract

The article considers the development of the concept of accessibility of the living environment as a need of every person and the entire population as a whole. Aspects of barrier-free formation by urban planning means, which is a set of objects of the spatial, social, and informational environment and characterizes the presence or absence of certain favorable and comfortable conditions for the successful full-fledged life of all members of the community, testify to the degree of civilization of society and the development of the country as a whole. An important characteristic of our environment is the accessibility of objects and services, a barrier-free environment that provides the opportunity to visit places, buildings and premises, the opportunity to receive services, use devices for everyone: both for ordinary people and for citizens with limited mobility, including people with special needs of different categories. We need to take a broader view of barriers and shape a worldview based on human rights and rejecting discrimination that automatically assumes that a person cannot do something because of their physical, mental, personal or ethnic characteristics. Today, we realize that in addition to people with certain needs and limited opportunities due to their health, the population with limited mobility also includes pregnant women, parents with strollers and small children, temporarily disabled and elderly people, cyclists. Therefore, low mobility is a life cycle for almost every person. And this is a serious reason and argument in favor of the indisputable need of the entire population to organize an accessible environment. The construction of a barrier-free environment for post-war reconstruction, the development of barrier-free building standards and a mechanism for monitoring their implementation are especially relevant. As a result of the conducted analysis, the presence of radical changes in the principles of urban planning related to the creation of a comfortable and humane space accessible to all and reflecting the evolution of views on the quality of the living environment was revealed.