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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...

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 ...

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 ...

The International Exhibition is often identified with a chance for development for the applicant's city areas. Nevertheless, as the experiences of the host cities show, the sustainable use of change potential is extremely difficult. Therefore, already in the creation process of the exhibition theme, it is important for the exhibition to become an element influencing the evolution of the area and not the final stage of its development. The choice of revitalisation as the theme of the International Exhibition EXPO 2...

This paper presents the issue of adaptation of the existing railway facilities to the new needs and their potential and significance for the local communities in small towns. Presented examples of adaptation indicate the possible functional solutions and methods of investment implementation. The examples of modernization and adaptation carried out include station buildings in rural areas and small towns. Based on these examples, an attempt was made to create a model way of program planning and functional layout as...

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 locatio...

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...

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...

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 areasВ’ growth potential derived from their local conditions has changed their character and relations with the surrounding structure. The new varied forms of development in th...

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...

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...

The topicality of the subject matter is conditioned by the modern tendencies towards globalization and the active development of the new information technologies that exert considerable influence on the development of modern towns and the decrease in the significance of the national economy. The article presents the analysis of the work of foreign authors which emphasize the leading and even dominant role of towns and urban creativeness in the life of humankind. The role of the extension and development of the cre...

Under the circumstances of restructuring and modernizing public finances in Romania, which is subordinated to the requirements of market economy development, the Court of Accounts functions as a financial control institution, independent of the legislative and executive powers.It is the institution empowered to check, in the last resort and in the most demanding manner, the management accounts drawn up in the execution of the state year budget, either to give discharge or to attract the legal responsibility of tho...

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 ...

At the end of XX - beginning of XXI century in the conditions of AzerbaijanВ’s transition from a planned economy to a market-oriented one the chaotic development of residential areas in Baku has intensified due to the insufficient control in urban planning. It was accompanied by destruction of numerous architectural monuments, increase in building density, a severe reduction of public spaces and green zones. To prevent these negative trends in urban development of Baku the State program "The new principles of urba...

The fight against poverty and social exclusion to a large degree refers to housing exclusion connecting with the lack of access to decent and affordable rental housing for vulnerable or low-income households. Last transformations of housing systems in many countries have lead a further increase in social polarization and segregation. Hence, the importance of social housing for social cohesion has been acknowledged in key international and European laws and policy statements. The paper presents the role of municipa...

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...

Currently, unemployment and its consequences may be deemed to be in focus of the government’s social policy aimed at elimination of possible risks for both individuals and the society. This paper deals with an analysis of development of the unemployment rate and its selected characteristics in Slovakia during the years 2011 - 2015 while focusing on identification of relations between the education level and age of economically active population on one hand and the education level and age of the unemployed on the...

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 interestsВ’ conflict: - various levels of power, from the federal level to the local...