Urban Zoning as a Method to Protection and Develop Historic Settlements (within the Volgograd Region)

Abstract

The text of the article contains a brief overview of the development of the legislative and legal framework of urban planning zoning in the field of protection and development of cultural heritage objects. The article makes an attempt to systematize the main directions of development of the methodological basis of urban planning zoning in the last two decades, aimed not only at rational use of territories with cultural heritage objects, but also at their protection. Modern methodological developments in the context of continuous monitoring and adjustment of town-planning regulations for specific municipal entities and their territorial objects possessing cultural heritage objects are considered. The inconsistencies in the system of protection of territorial cultural objects in defining the boundaries of planning components within settlements, their protection status and its implementation in the system of Land Use and Development Regulations have prompted a scientific study of the development of protection potential by methods of urban planning zoning for local historical settlements with or without the status of a “historical settlement”.