Authors

Gayevskaya Zlata A.
RURAL RUSSIA: MODELING DIGITAL URBAN PLANNING

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (70) June, 2020

Based on a review of international and Russian experiences, it is argued that the digitalization of agriculture should be based on its adaptive intensification. Digitalization requires the introduction of ‘local development’ concept into the theory of rural planning. Well-calculated and effective use of resources sets new esthetics of digital agriculture through information relations in the triad “nature-population-economy”. Digital planning of the future should involve biospheric considerations.

Gayevskaya Zlata A.
AN EXPERIENCE OF AESTHETIC ORGANISATION OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS OF THE SOVIET PERIOD DURING RECONSTRUCTION

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (35) September, 2011

The current epoch is characterised by a global crisis, which is affecting all countries and all walks of life. The notion of ‘sustainable development’ that entered our lexicon in the late 20th century may be regarded as a category of the new-age mentality. The idea of sustainable development is associated not just with the overcoming of anthropocentrism and acceptance of biocentrism instead of it but with their integration in a uniform co-evolutionary system ‘individual - society – nature’ capable of ‘noospheregenesis’ (according to A.D.Ursul).

The cultural landscape competently "designed" by man should become a basis for the future noosphere. Our experience of aesthesizing the planning structure in experimentally reconstructed rural settlements of the Soviet period is based on the use of the principle of similarity from 1935 to 1990.

The principle of similarity allowed us to reveal the structural law of being. It helped open up the primary standard pattern of a space and enabled meaning to be incorporated into spatial combinations owing to the fact that aesthetic experience ultimately helps the individual to find his/her place in the Universe. Relations between functional zones and natural landscape dominants based on the similarity principle helped identify specific features of aesthetic organisation.

Gayevskaya Zlata A.
LANDSCAPE AND REGIONAL FEATURES OF POPULATION SETTLEMENT` IN NECHERNOZEMYЕ REGION

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (34) June, 2011

At present, landscape is losing its historical dimension, the concept of regional image is no longer topical, and distinctions in the architectural appearance of villages in different areas disappear. The need to study the mechanisms underlying the emergence of regional features in the course of historical resettlement has become very urgent.

The fine-tuned concordance between the natural environment and the plan of historical rural settlements can be presented in models. A historical «happy» settlement was a consequence of centuries-old inheritance of nature’s wisdom.

Geographers regard landscape as a complex individual territorial unit, a historically developed system of smaller natural complexes designated by the following terms: facies, natural boundary, area. In the theory of social systems, facies, a component genetically and dynamically constituting a system known as «natural boundary», is considered as an object of land use in relation to which human relationships are established and regulated by natural and legal laws.

According to the “Concept of Transition of the Russian Federation to Sustainable Development» (The decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 1 April 1996 No. 440), sustainable development needs interfaced, internally balanced functioning of the triad: nature, population, economy. The proposed principle of similarity of outlines in the planning structure of rural settlements to natural elements on facies borders and natural boundaries facilitates the achievement of the above triad.