THE INFLUENCE OF THE PECULIARITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION OF RECREATIONAL AREAS ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LANDSCAPE AND ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF THE CITY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF KHARKIV CITY)

Abstract

The article examines the process of degradation of the landscape-ecological framework of the city due to the dominance of the human-centered approach to the urban recreational areas’ organization. Using the methods of cartographic analysis, full-scale photographic recording, synthesis and abstraction, a study of the recreational territories of Kharkov city was carried out and three main types of recreational objects development were identified: small recreational objects (up to 10 hectares), which completely lost the opportunity for sustainable development, self-creation and are completely dependent from human withdrawal; medium-sized district and city parks, which are being reorganized into urban parks and amusement parks with a high level of recreational load; large elements of the landscape-ecological framework, which are degrading due to the complete absence of the recreational organization of the territory. It was also determined that the main reasons for the loss of sustainable development by recreational facilities are: lack of a comprehensive strategy of the system of landscape and recreational areas development for the city; making situational decisions about the reconstruction of recreational facilities in the city; inconsistency of the park’s type within its place in the structure of the landscape-ecological framework of the city; preference for the organization of park areas with high recreational loads; irregular organization of recreational areas in the city. The main steps of the strategy for the integrated development of the city landscape-recreational system are proposed, which are as follows: determining the level of value of a recreational facility in the structure of the city landscape-ecological framework, assessing the sustainability of a recreational facility development at the present stage, predicting the types of recreational organization of territories, the prospective level of recreational load, and the level of domestication of the object in order to preserve its sustainable development in the future.