Origin and degradation of production territories

What is it about?

For many decades, from the end of the XVIII - beginning of the XIX century, industrial production itself caused migration of the population from rural areas to cities, hypertrophied extensive territorial growth of settlements, formation on their basis of agglomeration and supraglomeration forms of settlement, their gradual structuring, and in the urban environment - changes in the nature of construction, increasing its density, especially in the central core, the emergence of new types of buildings, depletion of territorial resources within the city and the gradual reduction of greenery. The industrial revolution and the concentration of production determined the principles of zoning of the industrial city, its complex functional and planning organization and the leading importance of the industrial function in the structure of the settlement. At the same time, it is in the first half of the XX century that the preconditions for the formation of a post-industrial society are being formed. Structural changes in the economic complex cannot but affect the functional and planning organization of urban settlements and bring to the fore the problem of preserving industrial areas not so much as functional areas, which, being not needed as before, begin to degrade, creating depressive centers in the urban environment, and as town-planning formations capable of further existence in a new quality of system-forming elements of the city structure. For Ukraine, the need to restore degrading industrial areas in the structure of urban settlements in the post-industrial relations coincides with the development of an independent state and its integration into the European community and seems quite relevant in the context of ensuring further life not only individual cities but also the entire settlement system in the country.

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Photo by John Flygare on Unsplash

Why is it important?

For Ukraine, the need to restore degrading industrial areas in the structure of urban settlements in the post-industrial relations coincides with the development of an independent state and its integration into the European community and seems quite relevant in the context of ensuring further life not only individual cities but also the entire settlement system in the country. A novelty in such conditions is the study of the emergence, development, degradation and recovery of the productive component of the city as one of its main subsystems from the standpoint of a systems approach.