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Nowadays, automobile traffic reaches such levels, that one of the biggest topics of the bigger and the smaller cities is its optimization. From this problematic arises a question as: how can we streamline traffic in the city? Or with which way can we get the traffic out of the city, to reduce the impact of the transit traffic to the city center. Automobile traffic often achieves critical numbers, which impact is in creation of traffic jams and the city can easily become impassable. The solution could be find in le...

At present, the management of wastewater in the cities of Russian Federation has many problems. In this paper, we have analyzed the water supply and wastewater treatment systems in one of the cities of the Russian Federation (Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region). It was found that wastewater treatment facilities are obsolete. There is a significant excess of actual wastewater volume over the capacity of existing urban treatment facilities, low cleaning effect, open discharges of untreated domestic and industrial wastewat...

Any urbanized territory is a multicomponent system. The current tendency of management and planning of urbanized territories is aimed at finding a solution for a multidimensional multicriteria problem with a complex system of constraints and, sometimes, not deterministic (the existence of a multivariate choice of path and various kinds of risks). As any economic task, the urbanized territory can be considered as a place of various interests’ conflict: - various levels of power, from the federal level to the local ...

The article overviews cases of modern history of budget sector reforming, stages of restructuring and privatization in social sphere are considered, particularities of each stage are emphasized, prospects and mechanisms of social sphere development in Russia in up-to-date social and economic conditions from the point of strategy of sustainable development of urban environment are considered. Activities of public administration bodies on reforming of social sphere as Russian economics sector has been carried out du...

Development of cities provides a challenge for city transport, resulting in an increased need for fast and environment-friendly option of travel. The parking problem is a trivial, but complex problem. It lies in the domain of many scientific disciplines, including architects - who create local spatial development plans. The aim of the paper is to define the current status of public cubature car parks in Polish cities and presenting experiences of selected cities of Western Europe - as examples which will be follow...

The paper presents the analysis of resolving the problem of parking in Wroclaw according to P&R rules. The analysis uses software tools made based on evaluation model of P&R facilities location. The model was built on the basis of urban expert knowledge transformed into fuzzy inference algorithm. Fuzzy inference is commonly used in computer science as a decision-making tool of artificial intelligence. The proposed model of evaluation of the location of P&R objects in the first stage of the work was subjected to a ...

The aim of the article is to present the contemporary changes in the functional and spatial structure of Krakow. The article discusses transformations going on in several spatially, functionally and dimensionally varied fragments of the city which have become attractive locations for new development projects in recent years. Realising these areas’ growth potential derived from their local conditions has changed their character and relations with the surrounding structure. The new varied forms of development in the...

Sustainable development of a modern city is an extremely urgent task that must be addressed by all city residents in order to ensure the high quality of the urban environment, the high quality of life, the balance of the city and the natural environment. Sustainable development of the city should ensure the creation of a beautiful, healthy, beloved city, ensuring full satisfaction of their needs. An environmentally friendly urban environment that satisfies biological needs has an extremely large impact on resident...

In societies with permanent settlements i.e. built environment, ideas about time and permanence are deeply present in form of an abstract one-dimensional temporal path in both directions: through the concept of past time and making the world of memories, and also of future time through making the world of aspirations and assumptions. This paper aims to address the question: did the formulation of the concept of time and permanence along with some other concepts set the stage for human cultures to enter into the ar...

The Slovak Republic provides the security for an every citizen throughout its territory. At the local level, the community is concerned about creating a safe environment within its territory. One of the ways to create such an environment is to use the services of municipal police. It helps to ensure security and to reduce illegal activities at the local self-government level. Municipal police is a unit responsible for maintaining law and order in the municipalities, environmental protection, and fulfillment of tas...

This paper focuses on the spatial distribution of social and business activities using geoinformation technologies. Previously, only a spatial population density was studied in this way. It was shown that the spatial density of the population exponentially falls from the city center to its outskirts. This law was called Clarke's law. To study spatial magnitudes we used a freely distributed GIS – QGIS project. The data from the open geoinformation project OpenStreetMaps was used as a source of data on the location ...

Background The publication presents the results of a comparative analysis of the problem of environmental protection as it pertains to residential architecture. The study was performed on a group of users of residential projects in Poland and the Netherlands. The two countries are at a different level in terms of the level of knowledge regarding sustainable development and the design of sustainable residential projects. Poland is not at an equal level to the Netherlands. This is mainly because of ineffective educa...

Global cities have already entered the circle of key actors of international politics and world industry. As the focus of global connectivity routes, international trade and soft power has encountered a considerable shift to Asia-Pacific region, the number of global cities in this region has also increased, along with the concentration of industry and the population growth. While the economy of the People’s Republic of China remains the fastest growing in the world, more and more Chinese cities reach the level of ...

The problem of estimating the price of residential real estate is considered. For its solution it is proposed to use hedonic house price models such as local spatial models: geographically weighted regression and kriging. They attempt to explain variation in house prices using property structural and location characteristics. To improve the quality of construction of a variogram model, it is proposed to use robust methods. Methods are compared based on real data on the house prices in the city of Novosibirsk. The ...

Human Development Index is a composite statistic currently viewed as an indicator of “quality of life”. The rankings of the world’s countries were assessed by the authors to determine the level of compliance with Human Development Index. The results of the comparative analysis defining the potential opportunities for building “smart cities” are presented below. The top 14 countries, ranked by Gross Domestic Product, were assessed over such categories as: education, Information and Communication technology developm...

The most common system in Russia is placing unsorted waste at landfills. The existing system poses a significant threat to the environment and does not ensure that waste is included in the turnover as recyclable materials. The present work deals with various options for sustainable waste management in the Russian cities. We calculated the volume of solid municipal waste (SMW) generation from the housing stock on the basis of the approved norms for their accumulation and and studied the real amount of waste in the ...

In the climate change context, the efficient usage of natural resources has become a global objective key. The study addresses to the providing utilities for fresh water supply issue, and to the electricity supply of the communities, and isolated buildings, avoiding the risk of the natural resource depletion. In the absence of the possibility of connecting to the distribution networks (DN) of the national energy system (NES), renewable energy sources represent the solution to the energy problem of these types of c...

To develop the northern and arctic territories, highly skilled workers are needed. But the problem is that if the quality of life and work does not meet their expectations, they will not be equal in other regions, this can be an important condition for obtaining and consolidating the results of research and development of the Arctic areas and on the ecology of the northern region. It is necessary to create or transform settlements that should be maximally adapted to a particular territory, should not violate the b...

The mood for the imagination and inventiveness in Brazil recreates every moment many other "Brazils" that retake and reinvent traditions, weaving an amalgamated diversity with a false idea of festivity and affection among transitions, courage and hope that often suggests a prosaic grace and spontaneity. This "brazilianness" that apparently renews and enriches our material culture is highlighted here under a focus on curious objects made of recontextualized materials in the main urban centers as a result of a cruel...