TRANSFORMATIONS OF CITIES – REGIONAL CENTERS OF THE WESTERN REGION OF UKRAINE IN THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD

Abstract

Characterization and analysis of structural-parametric transformations in cities - regional centers of the Western region are carried out. Assumptions are made on the basis of observations that changes lead to the deterioration of socio-ecological and economic parameters and architectural and aesthetic characteristics of cities. Comparison of transformations in selected cities - regional centers of the region indicates the phenomenon of fluctuation as an accidental (unreasonable) deviation of a quantity (process or phenomenon) from the average value in individual cities. The large number of different documents of this nature, aimed at different purposes, emphasizes the lack of a unified strategy for urban development. The inconsistency of documents of socio-economic and town-planning character, lack of an effective document of management of town-planning processes is highlighted. Management "in manual mode" causes unsystematic changes, the destruction of the basic principles of urban development, causes irreparable urban planning errors in their development. Assessment of transformations in post-Soviet cities reveals problems, conflicts and inconsistencies: lack of coordinated policies within newly created communities; territorial; ecological; exacerbation of transport problems; destruction of industry and economic structure; social; preservation of historical parts; aesthetic and spatial; engineering and technical; city resource management and uncontrolled processes.
 Analysis and evaluation of processes, problems and structural-parametric transformations in the urban space should be the basis of a new methodological approach to substantiation of strategic decisions and updating urban development documents.There are requirements for urban planning documentation: the organization and development of cities as a system should be focused on increasing the efficiency of time, material resources and human potential; the development of cities on the basis of knowledge of problems and ways to solve them, including world experience, should be associated primarily with the disclosure of their spatial uniqueness. Generalization of the results of analysis and evaluation of structural and parametric transformations in cities indicates the growth of disorder in urban life and the growth of its dynamism, there are spaces of different attractiveness in functional, social and aesthetic terms.