Typological factors of urban development of inconvenient lands in the structure of Irkutsk riparian zones

Abstract

The paper considers the main approaches to organization and development of inconvenient lands in a city structure. The aim was to develop an interdisciplinary research model and to design an urban development plan for the territories of floodplains with a high level of flooding. The main objectives of the study consisted in identification of factors for assessing the urban development capacity of territories with various degrees of flooding; determination of principles for increasing the urban development capacity of wetland areas; formation of methods for urban development of inconvenient lands, taking into account landscape planning factors of the floodplain complex organization. The paper considered the main approaches to organizing inconvenient urban areas as a whole. However, most attention was paid to the wetland areas of vast floodplains from the standpoint of geotechnical, biotechnical and urban morphological methods of organizing the territory. The methodology of territory assessment and transformation via methods of geoplastics was developed in the process, and the basic principles of sustainable landscape-planning pattern of the urban fabric under conditions of flooding were formulated. As a result, a model of territory organization was developed based on the methods of urban landscaping and building morphotypes on the example of Irkutsk.