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Landscape Design of the Urban Environment: Ecological Aspects

Шевченко, Л.С.

This article is aimed to consider some aspects of the landscape design of the urban environment, oriented to recreate its natural ecological balance and provide esthetically attractive and healthy living environment. The authors emphasize the importance of creation of a har-monious environmentally friendly urban environment for vital activity of its habitants basing on the proper collaboration of natural and anthropogenic constituents. Approaches and methods, that formed the basis of algorithm of this research and facilitated the careful analy-sis of the available historiography material, urban environment world analogues, their project design are represented. The authors gave a conceptual framework, that consists of the terms related to this research by content. Aspects of landscape design of urban environment are outlined. The authors focused their particular attention to the educed ways of solutions of the ecological problems of the urban envi-ronment by means of landscape design - by forming the ecological framework of a city; creation of the environmental architecture; re-course of the verdured roofs and walls; by ecologization of transport arteries, introduction of bike paths, application of eco-grades, parklets; by creation of walking paths, sites and small architectural forms, without impact on natural form of earth and areas of the exis-tent planting. It is to be noted that the proper approach to the landscape design of an urban environment is the powerful motivator for improvement of ecological situation, creating accents wherein they have been set by nature. It is highlighted that only the all-round con-sideration of features of natural urban environment can assist creation of a perfect ecological landscape at the urban framework, its layout structures and infrastructures as a whole.

English

2018

eco-parking

International Journal of Engineering & Technology

Shevchenko L. Landscape Design of the Urban Environment: Ecological Aspects / L. Shevchenko, N. Novoselchuk, V. Toporkov, Y. Kuznietsova // International Journal of Engineering & Technology. – 2018. – Vol. 7, № 4, 8: Special Issue 8. – P. 671–676.

2227-524X

Interrelation between mankind and nature is intrinsic. Despite the human drive to progress, it returns however to natural sources. Nature is the initiation wherefrom during centuries the human beings draw inspiration, forming their environment, creating new architectural objects, implementing their own tastes as to the har-monious vital environment. Undoubtedly, both the achievement of scientific and technical progress and spiritual values are repre-sented therein.