Urban water bodies as the basis for functioning of public spaces

Valentina Kurochkina,V Breskich

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202021702005

Abstract

Recently, housing construction in cities has been carried out at a high rate. Increasingly, urban abandoned and flooded depressive spaces near water bodies (often rivers), which were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used, are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. The restoration of such territories helps to improve the quality of urban space and improve its ecological properties. Correct development of territories near rivers and various water bodies has a great health-improving effect on the urban environment, improves its natural and climatic conditions. In addition, social and economic factors play an important role in this process, since such transformed territories and territories adjacent to them significantly increase investment attractiveness. This paper examines modern approaches to the development of urban public spaces, based on the formation of architectural environments that ensure the relationship of urban development with water bodies and adjacent territories. The paper notes that water bodies are not only an important component of the natural-ecological framework, but are also the basis for the framework of urban-planning natural-technogenic systems as a whole. And the creation of a continuous urban fabric is impossible without the organization of a ‘water’ line of development, provision of compositional, functional and communication interconnection of open urban and water spaces, which is actively being introduced today in architectural and urban planning practice. The paper examines the role of water bodies in the ecological system of the city, as well as in its structure as a whole. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the formation of a public urban space, to determine the patterns of its development, to identify criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of the impact of urbanization on a water body. Some principles of revitalization of coastal areas, as well as the creation of a system of publicly accessible, compositionally expressive spaces are considered. The principles of space transformation aimed at the formation of a holistic image of the city, as well as the impact of such a spatial arrangement of urban and water bodies on the safety and quality of the urban environment are considered.

Highlights

In recent decades, housing construction has been progressing rapidly around the world
Most large cities were built on the banks of rivers, which, being a natural symbol of the city, to a greater or lesser extent influenced the formation of public urban space
The transformation of the hydrological networks of urban areas was determined by the history of the formation of the city, the peculiarities of building at different stages of the formation of the urban environment [1]

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In recent decades, housing construction has been progressing rapidly around the world. The urban population will be 70% by 2050. The problem of organizing urban space especially affects Russia, where already this figure reaches almost 75%. Most large cities were built on the banks of rivers, which, being a natural symbol of the city, to a greater or lesser extent influenced the formation of public urban space. Rivers have been the main means of communication. The use of water gradually expanded and, the importance of water resources for the city increased. The transformation of the hydrological networks of urban areas was determined by the history of the formation of the city, the peculiarities of building at different stages of the formation of the urban environment [1]

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