INTERRELATION OF SOCIAL TYPES OF ACTIVITY AND PERFORMANCE IN SPACE-PLANNING STRUCTURES OF URBAN AREAS (as exemplified in town of Irkutsk)

Abstract

In the present paper the authors researched interrelation of nine major socially critical components of activity/performance of town population which form so-called activity frames in the structure of urban areas. The methodology of layering mapping, social activity/performance of population, received by use of software applications Dubl GIS Irkutsk 2016 and Google Earth, was applied. The research is based on author’s methodology of forming human activity/performance frames. Frames are presented essentially as formations consisting of nine socially critical components of human vital activity, namely: healthcare, education, culture, sport, child welfare institutions, leisure, commerce, beauty and wellness, residential housing. On the base of implemented research the authors have found interrelation of nine socially critical types of activity which characterized by parametric properties, such as consolidation, complexity, sparseness, ‘diffusiveness’ in space-planning urban environment. The received results allow to give more qualitative assessment in the process of design, construction and renovation of urban areas, districts, neighborhood units and clusters and also to keep track of dynamics of change in human activity in urban structures.