Dmitruk A. Landscape-and-Urban Systems of the Ukraine.

The dissertation concerns with the theoretical and methodological background of the Urban Landscape Studies as the new integrative constructive-geographical branch of modern Geography. The contents of Urban Landscape Studies, its object and subject, inter-scientific relations and integrative potential are clarified. The system-management approach is defined as a methodological basis for the research. This approach combines several principles of general system approach applied for the analysis of urban landscapes as the holistic landscape-and-urban systems (LUS) formed with the aim and under the influence of urban management. The principal features of spatial pattern and functioning of the LUS are found and described, as well as the classification of LUS is developed. The principles and approaches to the mathematical and computer modeling of the LUS are proposed, and the cartographic model of the LUS of the Ukraine is developed. The regional geoecological features and spatial disproportion in the forming and developing of the LUS of the Ukraine are found and analyzed. The principles and strategy for optimization and management of urban land use, and the structural system GIS model of the LUS-s geomanagement are proposed. The principal conditions needed for running the model, the tasks and directions of the further development of its subsystems are defined. The basic direction, contents and aims of the professional education of experts on geomanagement of the LUS are defined. Key words: landscape-and-urban system (LUS), urban land management, Urbanized landscape Studies, urbanized landscape, geomanagement, urboecomarketing, urbocompensational ecorecreation, subdivision into landscape-and-urban regions, optimization LUS.