The Iraq policies of National Housing have been working for a long time to develop the possible solutions to the problem of obtaining housing for all Iraq families. However, these policies have not achieved their objectives in the desired manner. The problem of housing in Iraq has become one of the most important problems facing urban development in this country. The study is based on a theoretical framework for housing, which adopts the most important economic and normative characteristics to be followed to achieve the development of the housing sector in Iraq to the cases of institutionalization, and through the four criteria: the size of the housing unit, the level of family income, the system of borrowing required, the ownership to achieve adequate housing for all levels of society that have shown willingness to cooperate and participate in reaching these goals.

Effective applied research is based on close collaboration between research and industry, which taking the findings of basic research on customer demands as its starting point, creates a new means for developing and marketing innovative products. What is more, growing demands for innovative and sustainable results of research and development are prompting the examination of global trends such as demographic change, growing megacities, rising energy consumption and increasing traffic and the resultant social challenges. These trends and increasing traffic in particular are giving rise to new fields of work, especially for digital technologies, as a social responsibility, e.g., in driver assistance and traffic control systems that increase safety. This paper examines a means by which digital engineering, virtual and augmented reality technologies can support the creation of sustainable smart manufacturing and smart logistics processes as well as on-the-job training and qualification and knowledge transfer.

The monograph under review is a successful attempt to reconstruct the place of Sevastopol in the cultural memory of the Soviet period by means of in-depth analysis of the system of discourse related to the history of this city, “places of memory,” and commemorative practices (with special attention to the celebration of historical anniversaries). The authors managed to create a holistic image of how the main stages in the history of the “City of Russian Glory” together with the related narratives and personalities were included in the general context of the Soviet politics of history and are presented in the collective consciousness. To achieve the purpose of the study, they gave a detailed description of numerous memorial constructions, museum expositions, works of fine art, musical works, scientific and popular-science literature, memoirs and fiction, theatrical productions, documentaries and feature films – all the things that determined general visual and discourse content of the collective memory of the past in the context of the 20th century. The monograph under review is of great significance for Russian memory studies and is recommended to those who are interested in the history of Sevastopol and engaged in memory studies, new cultural history, symbolic policy, and discourse studies. At the same time, despite the variety of the topics raised and the depth of the analysis conducted, there remains a broad heuristic field for new studies devoted to the legendary “City of Russian Glory” in domestic memorial culture and historical memory.

The world experience, key principles and methods of industrial objects renovation are considered in the article. Examples of adaptation of industrial facilities to the needs of modern cities are given. Development trends of principles and methods of industrial territories and constructions renovation are revealed. The principles are based on preserving or changing the initial function of the structure; methods include the ways of renovation procedure, rely on maintaining or changing external and internal types of structures. The diversity of solutions for the conversion of objects allows architectural modeling of the correct choice of adaptation of historical objects or complexes to modern needs. Similar restructurings of industrial centers and their infrastructure with the preservation of objects are considered. The analysis, rationality and effectiveness of the renovation process in an urbanized megalopolis are carried out on the example of historical industrial objects. Renovation of industrial areas will create a more comfortable urban environment; develop social infrastructure and convenient public spaces. For this purpose, it is advisable to use all types of complete refunctionalization