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For sustainable development of urban territories there is required a comprehensive analysis of a variety of both favorable and unfavorable factors. It is necessary to take into account not only economic and geographical position of the city in the settlement system, the place in the country's economy for planning and building cities, carrying out reconstruction in urban areas, but also natural conditions and environmental factors limiting the development of urban territory. The first group of environmental constra...

The negative impact of airports and the protection of human from it must be taken when planning the use of land plots located near these objects. Restrictions on the location of residential development and limits the possibility of area use affected by the aircraft noise, are implemented by law in many countries, such as USA, UK, Germany, France, Denmark. In accordance with the requirements of the legislation of Russian Federation civil airports have to set boundaries of the «aerodrome environs». The concept «aero...

The mapping of the archaeological sites from different historical periods and the analysis of their location over the landscape give us the opportunity to obtain an overall picture of human settlement on the territory in times past. A region located in the valley of the river Ortolyk (South-Eastern Altai, Russia) was selected as an example. In order to analyse landscape location of the archaeological sites the archaeological and landscape maps were created by use of the program ArcGIS 10.1. The cartographic method...

The Ukok plateau is located in the southern part of the Altai Mountains on the altitude of 2200 пїЅ 2500 meters above sea level, at the junction of state borders of Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan and Russia. Despite the severe climatic conditions, the territory was populated and developed by representatives of numerous cultures, who had left their traces up to the present day in the form of numerous archaeological sites. The archaeologists investigated the location of the majority of archaeological sites. However, wi...