The article emphasized the necessity of preserving spiritual values in the process of sustainable development of cities and urban communities. The article considered harmonization of the architectural environment as the ultimate goal and the defining condition for sustainable development of settlements. Basing on the principles of urban synergetics proposed to use internal reserves as well as the selforganization potential of the population and urban planning effectively redistributes resources and reserves. The article deals with the main provisions of the architectural environment harmonization theory with the consideration of different ideas of harmony, the importance of achieving correspondence between a person's world-view and his surroundings, the expediency of taking into account interpersonal interactions between members of society. The strategic directions of penitentiary environment improvement at all organizational levels outlined. It proposed to form multi-level public spaces for recreation and communication of residents in the centers of historical cities where there is not enough free space. The ways to use recycled materials products for the buildings and structures construction, urban areas improvement, equipment manufacturing were been outlined.

The article considers the sustainable development of the city public spaces and the penitentiary complexes problems from the Synergetics and Socionics standpoint. These approaches provide consideration of the opposite processes of public spaces socialization and correctional complexes resocialization, sustainability, and dynamism its organization, and self-organization. The regularities of sustainable development are present in the cyclical nature of historical changes in public spaces and the penitentiary system. Cycles unfold in the alternation order of pairwise polarized processes, on the one hand, dispersion and concentration, and, on the other, – self-organization and adaptation. We have found that the interaction of universal processes and the natural change of cycles stimulates, on the one hand, growth and stabilization, and, on the other, – transformation and metamorphosis, which lead to the emergence of new forms and structures of public spaces and penitentiary complexes. We have proposed to use Socionical methods for increasing tolerance and democracy in the architectural environment of settlements. We have described the methodological tools to achieve the harmonization of the architectural environment of settlements.

The authors of the article consider the problem of including ethnic cultures in the processes of sustainable development and the maximum use of the creative economy in Ukraine. Documents of international organizations, the results of research by famous scientists in the humanities, architecture and urban planning confirm the relevance of the topic of the article. The confrontation between global civilization and regional cultures, which manifests itself in the confrontation between progress and traditions, has intensified in the rivalry between postmodernism and modernism. The principle of postmodern inclusiveness, in contrast to the exclusivity of modernism, opens up new prospects for the preservation and renewal of traditions in many countries, including Ukraine, where twelve ethnic regions have developed historically. The authors of the article traced the historical stages of the development of ethnic cultures in these regions based on the original synergistic method of polarized cycles. This method focuses on the stable order of cyclical changes in the ups and downs of regional cultures, which makes it possible to diagnose and predict their development. The forecast indicates the leading role of small settlements in the sustainable development of regional cultures. In Volyn these are Volodymyr-Volynskyi and Zymne, Olyka and Gubkiv, Dubno and Klevan, Mezhyrich, Ostrog and Plyasheva. There are many more such centers in Galicia. Among them: Brody and Drohobych, Zhovkva and Zolochiv, Krekhiv and Olesko, Pidhirtsi and Pidkamin, Univ and Halych, Kolomyia and Kosiv, Manyava and Rohatyn, Berezhany and Buchach, Zbarazh and Kremenets, Skala-Podilska and Chortkiv. The centers of ethnic culture in the Sivers'kyi region are formed around Baturyn and Gustyn, Kachanivka and Kozelets, Lyubech and Nizhyn, Novhorod-Siverskyi and Ostra, Pryluky and Sokyryntsi, Akhtyrka and Hlukhiv, Putivl and Romny. In Podillya, these centers include Bar and Brailiv, Voronovitsa and Lyadova, Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Letychiv and Medzhibizh. There are no less centers of ethnic culture in Bukovyna and Zakarpattia, in Polissya and Prydniprovya, in Slobozhanshchyna, in Tavria and in Crimea. Monastic complexes, handicrafts, museums, fairs, monuments of architecture and urban planning are concentrated there. Their rational use and functioning determine the inclusion of ethnic regions and Ukraine as a whole in the processes of sustainable development.

The article considers the main approaches to defining the essence of the concept of quantum semiotics in the field of design, architecture, and art. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that quantum semiotics is gradually gaining ground in the modern world as a kind of response to evolutionary changes in the algorithms of human mental activity. This approach allows us to perceive information about the current reality and create its alternative version, in particular, in works of visual art. In this paper, quantum semiotics is considered as the ability of a person to perceive the world around him according to the quantum complementarity principle (augmented reality). The quantum-semiotic approach in the humanities makes it possible to trace the transformation of real cultural facts, events, phenomena, or objects into signs, to analyze their semantic content and ways of transformation into symbols. Similar processes of object symbolization occur due to the number of images laid down by the author, perceived from different angles of view, and can carry different meanings that complement each other. The study and analysis of several examples of works of visual art suggest that the quantum-semiotic method of forming and perceiving the image of objects (works) can be considered an organic part of the highest scientific and theoretical approach, namely the synergetic one, which, among other things, makes it possible to choose key points of human knowledge of the world. Thanks to the ability of a human creator - a scientist or a practitioner - to go beyond the facts of cognition and use interdisciplinary methods in their work, in particular quantum-semiotic methods, viewers are allowed to perceive the multi-layered world around them, as well as imagine its multifaceted parallels in their minds. Thus, the studied facts form ideas and concepts, and in general create messages that can only be understood by the sender and a specific recipient, or by all of humanity. The paper emphasizes the need to introduce the concept of "quantum semiotics" into scientific circulation in the field of design, architecture, and art through the proposed quantum semiotic method; features and strategies for the development of quantum semiotics in design, architecture, and art, as well as its application in theory and practice, are considered.

The article analyzes the features of landscape design of two different subzones of Montenegro – the northern part of the Adriatic coast and the Bay of Kotor. The aim of the article is to identify the main natural and urban planning factors that determine the nature of greening in the resort towns of the North Coastal region of Montenegro, characteristic techniques of greening and basic approaches to landscape design of the territory of recreational facilities. The methods of geospatial analysis, historical analysis and comparative analysis were used. As a result of the study, the determining role of relief in the predominance of certain methods of greening of resort towns was proven.Comparison of greening techniques of the resort towns of Herceg Novi and Budva showed greater compliance with the local flora of grrening in Herceg Novi and greater exotic landscaping of the tourist area of the Adriatic coast – so called Budva Riviera. Seven characteristic methods of landscape design in the resort towns of the North Coastal region of Montenegro have been identified. Two main approaches to the landscape design of the territory of recreational facilities have been identified: "closed", when a closed environment of a recreational facility is created according to the "city within a city" principle with extensive use of stylization techniques and exotic plants, and "open", when views on the attractive natural landscapes or on historical buildings, and landscaping mainly uses local plant species.