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The article deals with the issues of a significant excess of the potential demographic load over the demographic capacity of the forests of the Cheboksary city district. Some ways of solving this problem are proposed.

With this article, the author will try to outline the relationship between environmental urbanism, the urban economy and policies to build sustainable cities of the future. Given that worldwide attention is being paid to the problems of climate change, which go hand in hand with the creation of sustainable architecture, which uses green technologies to build a modern city, where the application of the environmental approach is seen as a means of healing and planning the modern city of the future. The emerging tren...

The problem of the environment is becoming more and more pressing. The economic evolution of the world has led on the one hand to wellbeing, but on the other hand, has not taken into account Natural Resources. Sustainable development is on the agenda of all countries and represents a challenge for a return to green values. The European Union has sustainable development as one of its priorities. However, all this is not possible without proper education. The EU and national governments have set clear targets to gui...

In accordance with the principles of sustainable development, people have the right to live in a healthy, comfortable, and pleasant environment that is adapted to their needs. Not only urban planners, urban engineers, or developers, but the whole society are starting to deal with the issue of public space in cities more intensively. However, most of the discussions mainly concern the height and density of buildings within the city and do less about the resulting changes in urban space, which will affect the entire...

One of the tasks defined in the basic principles of sustainable building construction is to ensure a quality indoor environment and the health and wellbeing of the building’s users. Especially in the current epidemiological period, people spend more than 90% of their time indoors. In almost every indoor environment (IE), there is a certain number of ornamental houseplants. In most cases, these are ornamental plants with leaves or flowers. These plants give us aesthetic impressions and improve the well-being of bui...

The story of the evolving development of urban-landscape theory, planning, and design is like the evolving perceptions and advancing knowledge in mathematics, anthropology, geography, and ecology. In the mid-90s, the theory of landscape urbanism appeared in the West, according to which the structure of cities is determined by landscape factors more than architecture. Landscape urbanism describes "the ability to produce urban planning effects traditionally achieved through the construction of buildings, simply thro...

Buildings consume a large quantity of energy owing to their constant operation and long lifespan. Building-energy simulations are an important element of the decision-making process because they allow designers to examine the energy and comfort effects of various building design alternatives. In hot and arid climate conditions, cooling tends to dominate building thermal energy use. Cooling loads can be reduced through the adoption of efficient building envelope materials. This study investigates the optimal thickn...

The UNESCO Global Geopark network is expanding. Geoparks are intended to play important roles in sustainable development. For this to happen, new sites geopark establishment need to be carefully evaluated. In addition, protection and maintenance of heritage and sustainability within established geoparks requires effective monitoring. Modern geographic information system (GIS) technologies have a lot to offer for effective landscape-scale assessments and monitoring of geo park territories. However, little attention...

Green roofs can provide a number of benefits in urban areas, including mitigation of heat islands, reduction of urban air pollution, CO2 sequestration, noise reduction, water retention, absorption of pollutants in rainwater runoff, acid rain buffering, etc. The aim of the study is to map the land cover and assess some of the potential benefits of retrofitting green roofs in a residential area in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The survey covers Yuzhen (South) Quarter, with an area of 31.33 ha. According to the General Developm...

The future of the energy industry has been one of the most important problems in both domestic and world politics for many years. This is due to the legal conditions relating directly to the energy sector, resulting from the climate and energy policy focused on actions in the field of climate protection. Poland is a unique country in comparison to other European Union countries, the energy balance of which mainly, because in over 86% of the electricity produced, comes from hard coal and lignite. This unique and un...

At present, there is no uniform method that would use quantitative factors to evaluate the quality of public spaces. Most analyses are subject to the subjective opinion of the processor and cannot be applied to different territories. The work is devoted to the analysis of the quality of public spaces by creating a multicriteria evaluation taking into account transport, safety, environmental, economic and social impacts. Using multicriteria evaluation methods using purely quantitative data, it is possible to create...

The paper focuses on updating the results of partial steps associated with the socio-economic evaluation of public projects in the field of transport, specifically railway infrastructure. The article builds on the research results presented within previous scientific articles where the unit impacts of sub-categories of occurrences on the Czech railways were determined using a detailed Database of Occurrences for the 2011-2018 period. Within the research work of the project "Evaluation of Increased Safety and Relia...

Global warming is a dangerous phenomenon caused by anthropogenic environmental pollution. Renewable energy sources (RES) contribute to minimizing CO2 emissions. At the 26th meeting of the conference of the Parties (COP26), goals to reduce net emissions were set as soon as possible. At the same time, the European Commission has set the goal of achieving zero net emissions by 2050. Thermal transformation of conventional energy carriers causes the depletion of natural resources, the formation of secondary waste, and ...

Cadastre and Land Registry for Alba County in relation to the other counties of our country. Alba County is made up of 78 administrative territorial units, in which, within the framework of the programme, systematic registration works are carried out, both at cadastral sector and at ATU level. The works have been and continue to be financed from the own revenues of the National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising (ANCPI), through the Office for Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising (OCPI) of Alba, but a...

Urban agriculture has become increasingly topical in recent years due to both social trends and challenges of sustainable development. Although functions of the urban agriculture, especially economic and social, have been widely explored since the 1990s, the focus is mostly on regions where urban agriculture practices are strategies for survival and basic food security or on highly metropolitan cities, with little focus on countries and cities with a relatively medium or even low population density, thus excluding...

Landscape design and land art are usually associated with professional activity of designers and artists. However, implementation of landscape design projects and creation of land art objects may be achieved by efforts of regular citizens. Involvement in landscape decoration activities may create high level of participant engagement. This both landscape design and land art may be used for achievement of community engagement in achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Involvement of individu...

The article focuses on the Landscape Architect profession and the competencies that a person must have in order to be able to conduct research and analyses of green areas, organizing the space optimally, making informed management decisions and finding economically sound solutions. A landscape architect possesses specialized knowledge and skills that are directly involved in designing and managing the green infrastructure and its various components. The importance of this profession is undoubted in the process of ...

The article provides data on the use of medicinal plants in landscaping of the Steppe zone of Ukraine, special attention is paid to the creation of a rock garden. Medicinal plants have been widely used by man throughout his entire existence. Today, scientists are very interested in this group of plants due to the emergence of a pandemic caused by the deadly COVID-19 virus. It has been established that the phytochemicals of these plants are potential drugs against this virus. When creating a rock garden from herbac...

Main pedestrian lines and nodes in urban structures need to be penetrated with water and greenery for the transformation into vital and ecological public spaces. The context of water and greenery provides to public spaces flow of landscape and flow of natural elements through the major arteries and meeting places of the city. Our research on the Danube riverfront in Bratislava and its recreational hinterland focused on implementing greening of the area, the zone in contact with the river, landscape modelling, and ...