Research on the Multidimensionality of the Renovation of the Architectural and Urban Environment in the "Post-carbon" City

Abstract

From the middle of the 20th century, a firm position has been formed about the value of each stage of historical development of populated areas and preservation of their uniqueness. Historical science, as a rule, investigates architectural objects, established urban ensembles or historical cities. Applied research and practical urban planning should focus on functional zones, structure, and infrastructure of populated areas. Urban areas of different scale as objects of cultural history that function actively in all their problematic complexity mostly remain subjects of scholarly debate. Thus, there forms a strong contradiction in the understanding of approaches to the renovation of a modern city. In the early 21st century, the urban theory forms definitions such as “postindustrial”, “post-carbon” and other city types, due to technological alterations and dynamically changing lifestyle of a modern person. Such trends lead not only to radical shifts in the structure of a town, but also to the reassessment of values in relation to the environment of a modern city, and therefore to a different mechanism of the renovation of human