On the concept of town-planning design of the agricultural cluster in a big city

Abstract

The article deals with topical issues of town-planning design of the agricultural cluster in a big city as an integral part of the designing methodology for sustainable development of urban areas. The research subject is connected with ecological principles of town-planning, historical features of urban area development, agricultural settlement and specialization of the agricultural sector. The purpose of the study is to develop the town-planning concept of the agricultural cluster in a big city, the functional structure of its elements and to define principles of their organization within the context of methodology of area sustainable development. As a result of the research a number of principles for forming architectural and town-planning structures of the agricultural cluster have been formulated, including: the principle of sectorial townplanning, the principle of urban and rural areas integration, the principle of ecologization of cluster strategies and architectural and town-planning solutions, the principle of integrating landscape, agro-landscape and housing development, the principle of bio-positive design of buildings and complexes.

Town design and town communications in the process of image creation of Wroclaw and Malaga

“…Elements of a town's design create a visual image of a city, and their combination contributes to its recognition and makes it stand out from others. The town design in a broader sense covers not only a unified system of graphic standards, but also the architecture and urban values of the city and other areas that make up the urban fabric (Akhmedova and Zhogoleva, 2017). However, the elements of visual identification are the most important, i.e.…”