This study analyzes the meaning, possibilities and ways of using the historical
architectural and urban planning substance of the city in the forming process of the
interactive recreation system. Urban interiors of streets and squares often remain in a
state of anabiosis for decades, do not meet the requirements of full-fledged interactive
recreation of the population and are rather oriented to address the need for transport
and individual social needs, than the development of human relationships within a
society with a wealth of historical and cultural heritage.
The work consists of an introduction and four sections, which analyze the main
principles and methods of forming and improving the interactive recreation system in
the context of the urban planning structure and development.
In the introduction, the choice of the topic is justified, the goal and task, the
object, subject and methods of the research are highlighted, the scientific novelty and
practical significance of the obtained results are defined.
The first section «The state of research on the formation of interactive
recreation in the historical urban environment» consists of three subsections,
which analyze the main scientific and theoretical research and ideas highlighted in
professional periodical, the national and international regulatory legal framework,
presents the main research methods for determination of the state of scientific study
of the problem.
In the second section «The cultural potential of the historical city as a
dominant factor creativity in urban spaces» the leading role of historical and
cultural reserves in the central areas of cities and local historical and cultural
formations in the peripheral (relating to the central area) urban environment is
highlighted, as well as tendencies of successive transformation of the urban public
spaces into multifunctional ones in the process of historical development of the cities.
The third chapter «The dependence of the transformation of urban public
spaces on the differentiation of transport and pedestrian connections» analizes
the examples of foreign and domestic practice of forming of an interactive recreation
system in the historical city environment.
Due to the valuable historical, architectural and urban planning heritage in the
center of historical cities, the revalorization and reconstructive modernization of their
environment becomes possible for the creation and improvement of the system based
on direct contact and visual dialogue of a person with all the components of historical
and architectural substance, which is possible only in conditions of creating
pedestrian spatial components in the interactive recreation system and contributes to
raising the cultural and intellectual, cognitive and educational level of the city society
and the tourist contingent.
The fourth chapter «Principles of combining of interactivsty and creativity
as the basis of improving interpersonal communication and interaction with the
historical environment» considers the possibilities of successive development of
tendencies in the polyfunctionality of public urban spaces in the interactive recreation
system, the fundamental functional and spatial methodological tendencies of the
formation of the interactive recreation system depending on the features of the urban
historical substance, the principles and methods of forming of the interactive
recreation as a creative and innovative space based on the compositional and
aesthetic optimization of the historical cities environment.
The work emphasizes that the comfort of a significant number of visitors
staying in a historical core requires the modernization of public urban spaces and the
surrounding buildings in order to ensure their adequate capacity for collision-free
(including tourist) viewing and the implementation of public communications. It was
established that taking into account the cultural potential of the historical area of the
city, the creation of high-quality interactive recreational spaces in it should be based
on the leading role of urban interiors of the streets, squares and parks, which, as a
result of appropriate reconstructive transformations, receive a full-fledged
recreational value in the combined structure of the existing and of new buildings in
the central parts of cities.
After all, public urban spaces serve as a unifying link of the city, provide its
integrity in urban planning, cultural and social aspects and are of a particularly
creative recreational importance in the structure of the historically composed urban
development. This concept also provides an opportunity for neglected and abandoned
territories to get a new purpose and full-fledged functioning for the needs of urban
society.
