Public Spaces in Historic Environment as Urban Fundamentals of Sustainable Development

Abstract

Dynamic sociopolitical processes in Ukraine affect public needs. Today, it is crucial to develop urban approaches and methods to create open spaces in human settlements regarding sustainable development principles. The research is aimed at finding urban-planning approaches and methods of creating public space in the historic environment, which influence the preservation of historical and cultural legacy and cultural city potential, determining the role of public spaces in the sustainable development of the settlement. The research design is based on the use of targeted approaches in the territories' management, based on system analysis and sociological research to ensure sustainable settlement development. Geoinformation technologies are used to account for public zones in the settlement. The total number of public areas in settlements is one of the indicators that characterize the quality of life, according to ISO 37120: "Sustainable development of communities -Indicators for city services and quality of life."The originality of the research is in the synthesis of design and sociological methods for the formation of open public spaces in the urban environment. Open public spaces provide social and environmental aspects of sustainable development of the settlement by creating accessible places for cultural, creative, and artistic events.