During the last 20 years, geographic information systems (GIS) have emerged from the scientific laboratories into the heart of conventional planning practice. GIS has become an important tool to incorporate multiple criteria in planning. A more explicit ecological approach is that examined how natural processes are embedded in cities, and how the interaction between the built environment and natural processes affected economy, health, and human community. GIS can aid in public-policy decisions for more effective allocation of resources for community and economic development, for bettermanaged community planning and ecology. It provides a common framework location for information from a variety of sources.
Intensive urban and economic development leads to changes in functional planning of the territory. Comprehensive study of the existing use and ecology of the urban environment is necessary for making decisions on urban space optimization. This study can detect the negative effects of human impact and solve social and economic problems within the city. The socio-ecological assessment of the urban area within the developing zone carried out on the ground of the GIS, developed and compiled by the authors. The database of GIS consists of six blocks, including cartographic and attribute information with characteristics of the environment, functional planning and socio-demographic features of the territory.
Acknowledgement. The study was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Russian Geographical Society (project №13-05-41233). Mosk. un-ta., Ser. geogr., 2015. № 4. Pp. 49-58. (in Russian
227associated with the decrease of human impact on the urban environment is a major task of urban planning, which is the basis for a comprehensive environmental assessment of the city.
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