Function-topological model of urban space sectoral zoning

Abstract

This study supplements the function-topological model of analysis of city organization and development with a sectoral model of administrative-territorial division. The function-topological model allows revealing unique features of objects of the same profile, located in different space sectors. Besides, significant objects are usually placed in strictly defined sectors. Identification of general principles of spatial arrangement at all levels from geopolitics to the structure of private farmsteads on the cases of various cities, metropolitan areas and architectural ensembles is of great general scientific significance. It deals with the principles described in regional traditions: the Indian Vastu Vidya and the Chinese Feng Shui. The analysis shows that, on an intuitive level, the same principles are implemented in the activities of specialists, designers, who make decisions about the location of industries, residential areas and architectural complexes. Recognition and study of these principles are hindered by the materialistic attitudes of twentieth-century science. The results of the study lead to a radical step in recognizing many spatial elements of the mythological picture of the world as reliable ones.

The Mechanism for Implementing the Sector Model of Functional Zoning

“…1a / 1b) is entrusted in the northern sector to the natural development cycle, which the sector model is considered in this study (el. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. All the results of this development are stored in the northwestern sector (el.…”

“…Medvedeva, T.D. Zhuravleva develops a functional topological model of landmark object zoning in large cities based on material from St. Petersburg and Samara [1][2][3]. The functional topological model with reference to the sectoral pattern of the administrative-territorial division of the cities of Moscow (for the period from 1990 to 2012) and Minsk was named the "sector model of functional zoning" according to its most representative part [4,5].…”

“…Zhuravleva develops a functional topological model of landmark object zoning in large cities based on material from St. Petersburg and Samara [1][2][3]. The functional topological model with reference to the sectoral pattern of the administrative-territorial division of the cities of Moscow (for the period from 1990 to 2012) and Minsk was named the "sector model of functional zoning" according to its most representative part [4,5]. The following factors are considered as factors that influenced the development of the functional topological model: a) archaic ideas of the cardinal points taken into account when planning and placing buildings [6][7][8]; b) modern geopolitical spatial oppositions; c) the data of zoopsychology about the preferences of some animals in relation to cardinal points [9,10]; d) an impartial attitude towards the research results that do not fit into the modern picture of the world, both classical and postclassical.…”