Methodology of Sustainable Development of City's Cultural Landscape

Cultural landscapes in combination with unique natural complexes make a united natural and cultural framework of the urbanized environment, and their harmony is a condition of preservation and a sustainable development of environment. The variety of initial conditions and the factors defining a structure of the city's cultural landscape can be united in three main groups: natural and geographical, socio-historical and material and technological. The complex consideration of these conditions and factors provides an objective basis of comprehensive approach at projecting. Basic principles ensuring sustainable development of the city's cultural landscape: structural and modular coordination of the natural landscape and building; visual disclosure and active orientation of the building in relation to the landscape; semantic saturation of the cultural landscape with regional meanings and significance; purposeful formation of an artistically expressive panorama and silhouette of the city; preservation and restoration of aesthetically valuable elements of the natural landscape; organic sustainable development of the cultural landscape.