Trade-Entertainment Centers as a New Form of Public Space: The Case of Kyiv

Abstract

Objectives. To identify the space-time dynamics of a network of trade-entertainment centers in Kyiv and to characterize their functions as urban public spaces. Methods. General scientific methods and techniques were applied: comparison, generalization, systematization, analysis, synthesis. The results of author research of trade-entertainment centers in Kiev were used. The results of the analysis are presented in cartographic form. Results. The author has investigated 90 objects. Various combinations of a typical trading function with cultural-entertaining, business and residential are revealed. The evaluation of possible scenarios for the development of trade-entertainment centers as urban public spaces is shown.