Territorial differences within Drohobych district as a basis for cooperation between territorial communities

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to find a promising methodology for the study of urban development of territories. Using the example of Drohobych district (Ukraine), the possibilities of improving the methodology of urban planning analysis of significant territories and their classification for the possibility of their cooperation are outlined.
 In the tasks of determining the ways of modernization and urban development of the Drohobytsk district, the primary task is to establish the main functional types of landscapes - urbanized, agrarian, recreational and resource-industrial landscapes, in order to choose appropriate approaches in their planning.
 The population density data analysis of the Drohobych district obtained in the work by processing OpenSreetMap geospatial data maps in QGIS made it possible to single out local territories that differ in terms of: population density, transport accessibility, presence of objects of historical and cultural significance; distinguish territories with excellent relief characteristics and territories with raw resources.
 The conducted research made it possible to identify the main functional types of landscapes - urban, agrarian, recreational and resource-industrial. The following approximate proportions of these landscapes have been established within the Drohobych district: urbanized - about 10% of the territory, agricultural - 26%, recreational - 51%, and resource-industrial - 13%. In the majority, two or more type features are overlapping within the territory so the extended typology emerges: urbanized resource-industrial, urbanized recreational landscapes, resource-industrial agrarian landscapes, etc.
 The cartography with the applied functional types and subtypes of landscapes separates the planning zones that have similar resources and development possibilities according to common urban planning principles. So, the following are distinguished:
 1) the urbanized core of Drohobych district, formed with a group of cities that together form the infrastructural component of the district; with the available most pronounced and grouped resources of the district - natural raw resources of an industrial type (potassium salts, oil, natural gas) and medical and health-improving direction - mineral springs, some of which are unique in their healing properties. The resources of historical and cultural significance are also concentrated to a greater extent within the urban core;
 2) the border region of the flat and mountainous landscape, within which oil and potash deposits, and sources of mineral waters are located.
 3) south-western mountainous region, which according to the nature of connections has no visible attraction to the urbanized core.
 4) north-eastern agrarian region, contains deposits of natural gas and promising deposits of potash salts. The nature of connections is situational. The population receives administrative services in Drohobych, in return, household needs are realized both in Drohobych, Sambir and Lviv.
 In part, the boundaries of functional types of landscapes are consistent with the boundaries of united territorial communities.