город и парк

Abstract

The summer PB issue is a perfect time to talk about the relationship between nature, landscape, scenery and the artificial environment of the city.

The word ‘park’ originally had the meaning of ‘enclosed space’. Indeed, the structure of traditional parks includes a clear boundary with the urban environment. Such ‘protection’ is often necessary: it is able to protect parks from continuous development. For Irkutsk residents, many recreational facilities – the Academic Forest, the Kaiskaya Grove, and the Aviator Hydropark – remain a source of anxiety and concern being constantly encroached upon by developers.

Garden city, park city, forest city… Everyday dialogue with nature (at least a domesticated one) is already an urgent everyday element of urbanization.

On the pages of this issue, Japanese gardens meet with the private Ermakovo Pole Park in Tobolsk, the City Theater Park in the mining town of Cheremkhovo, and the parks of Astana and Aktau in Kazakhstan. Here is the garden city of Amalienau and the project of the park coastal part of Siberian Achinsk, which took second place in the prestigious international competition Rethinking The Future Awards 2025.