The article considers the links between designed and built-up areas and the state of pedestrian flows in the city centre through the example of Irkutsk. Taking into account the specifics of Irkutsk, where students and teachers of numerous universities play a significant role, it is proposed to extend the Green Diameter to the left-bank inter-university campus. The authors update the proposal to solve the identified problem by building a pedestrian and cycle bridge across the Angara River and clearing the main axes of the city – the Baikal Ray and the Green Diameter perpendicular to it.

Thought and thinking are like a flow, so it is permissible to apply metaphorically interpreted hydrotechnical and hydrological concepts of flows to them. In the civilizational process, we can discern all the functions of water: nutrition, movement, accumulation. For a long time, thinking spread across the earth’s territory along with human flows. Cities turned out to be places of flows of ideas, goods and people, and subsequently assets, which complemented the flows of human masses and information. In the 20th century, thought flows, anthropological flows, and information flows acquired...

The idea is ahead of the emergence of new settlements and the development of agglomeration processes. The formation of agglomerations is a consequence of the interaction of various kinds of flows, including human flows. Currently, migration and settlement processes do not so much depend on the availability or absence of appropriate roads and means of transport as on the management and planning of human flows.

The multi-valued concept of ‘flow’ is associated with the movement in space and time, the movement of certain entities in one direction. This is the city, a hierarchical, managed, open system that ensures the interaction of many material and virtual flows in a limited area. But so are all other architectural objects and all the organization of design thought. However, what is the real correspondence of our habitual ideas to the concept of flow, which is formed in other fields of knowledge that are occupied with this concept not sporadically, but constantly? Including critical...

The article uses the metaphors ‘cell’ and ‘tissue’ and analyses the configurations of motion networks for modelling the city. Such modelling is undertaken in order to identify the areas of harmonisation of the city and resolve its basic conflicts through ordering the properties of the cellular fabric. The article identifies the cell generation modes, the ways of binding cells into an entire tissue, interrelation of complex‑ ity and spatial entropy of the tissue. The article also reveals the properties of the tissue that contribute to the formation of landscape and historical framework of...

Flows as a movement, paths/roads, a part of life and a way of self-development, a form of transformation are one of the cultural stereotypes. The theme of flows as an urgent problem of the profession was raised at the World Congress of Architecture in Barcelona in 1996, where ‘man and time’, nomadism and ‘royal’ urbanism, flow and exchange, ‘ambulant science’, mobility and urbanism, transport flows, etc. were investigated. Today, the problem of flows is still important, becoming a global quality/property of the world. Information flows and the Internet, transport and trade flows,...

The modern city, in the unity of its material and iconic objects, is a multi-level text system that includes individual and collective symbolic elements, as well as means of mastering the experience of interacting with the urban text. This article provides a justification for the role of algorithmic means (Quick Response or QR) in understanding urban space. A QR code is considered as a graphic object that connects objects of the architectural and landscape layer of an urban text with communicative flows and social structures. The virtual space contains specific sign complexes, the...

The modern understanding of urban space extends beyond static structures and networks, introducing the concept of flows as a new way of analyzing urban areas. This study explores two approaches to understanding these flows: the dynamic approach, which incorporates a temporal dimension, and the topological approach, which reveals the diffusivity of boundaries. Through an analysis of urban processes and medical practices related to COVID-19, this paper demonstrates how the metaphor of flows can help rethink the social, discursive, and physical spaces of the city.

The scientific picture of the 21st century presents the world not as a mechanical system, but as a world of streaming Process and complex work. Therefore, it becomes important for creativity to express place as a Process characterised by a set of irreversible and interconnected circular changes in the dynamic order of the network of interactions. Such a consideration corresponds to a poetics of space or a topoanalysis of places. The cybernotopically streaming poetics of space proposes the study of the origins of the image not on the basis of individual atomic units-images, but on the...

The role of signs and symbols in the development of cities is considered within the framework of urban philosophy. It is shown that in many cases the flow of signs degenerates into a flow of empty signs, simulacra, which causes significant damage to the city. The alternative is to organise a flow of emotionally loaded signs. In this case, the city acts as a storyteller (narrator). The article gives the examples of cities successfully developing as narrator cities.

This article examines the formation and development of the orthogonal planning structure of the ancient cities of the Hellenistic era and Rome. It reveals the development line from the order system and rectangular peristyle public and residential spaces to a complete orthogonal urban structure. On this basis, the authors put forward the idea of the orthogonal essence of the antique city, which combines these elements on the basis of the principle of simplicity and equality. Architectural approaches are shown to locate the city on the ground and combine its various elements into a single...

The work is devoted to the analysis of the urban structure of Khabarovsk, how the districts were formed and how they are connected with each other. In the historical period under consideration (1858-1966) four urban development stages were identified: military outpost, industrial stage, Soviet and socialist stages. Each of the identified periods has a unique model of urban planning development: linear, regular, landscape and radial. The first large residential development was “GUPRovsky town”. The construction of the First microdistrict marked the beginning of planned development in...

Modern urban development conditions do not allow achieving the integrity of urban space. The formation of spontaneous planning units in the structure of a large city is due to the liberalization of regulations for architectural and urban development activities, a departure from large-scale projects and ensemble concepts. The study of the morphology of the city allows us to propose their approximate typology: urban growth cores; transit-oriented areas; natural areas; heterogeneous residential areas; ‘in-between territories’; terrain vague, etc. The nature of each type suggests a targeted...

The article is devoted to the analysis of urban development of the state of Manchukuo on the example of Changchun, which underwent a radical reconstruction in the period from 1932 to 1937. The features of the formation of the spatial structure of the city are revealed using the example of search options of the 1932 master plan. The article points out the high role of squares connecting the main highways and forming urban planning ensembles near them. It has been revealed that the use of green entrances and belts influenced the urban planning legislation of Japan. It has been determined...

The article illustrates the relationship of the sociological (Сh. Mills) and geographical (D. Harvey) imaginations that form the discursive dichotomy of urban planning. The articulation of geographical imagination is associated with the dominance of ‘abstract systems’ of politics and economics (the example of Docklands in London) and is fraught with ‘inaccessibility’ for citizens, the loss of a ‘sense of place’. The sociological imagination is driven by attention to a fragile social topology (the example of Stuyvesant Town in New York) and is aimed at socially oriented projects. The...

Global urbanization is forcing large numbers of people to move from traditional ways of life to life in a modern city. Powerful information flows and urban dynamics contribute to the development of mental disorders. The structure of the traditional Arab city prevented the growth of mental overload. As a result, the stigmatisation of mental disorders – treating them as a curse or a contagious disease – has taken root in traditional Arab culture. The westernisation of modern Arab cities has been accompanied by the dual effects of simultaneously increasing mental overload and eroding its...

The article considers the design of the Baikal-Amur Mainline not as a unique transport project, but as a unified settlement system that reflected the ambitions of Soviet urban planning in the 1960s-1970s. It analyses the role of design organisations and other actors in the formation of the ‘framework’ of settlements along the main line and the organisation of inter-settlement cultural and domestic services, as well as the reasons for the numerous adjustments to the plans under conditions of haste, lack of data and the diversity of agencies involved in the design.

Taking into account the results of the analyses of chronology of the BAM track laying, five stages of the main line construction have been defined and graphically represented on the sketch map. Justification was based on the historical context. On the basis of archival materials of museums, open sources and personal recollections of specialists, the author highlights the implemented and unimplemented projects in the towns and villages of BAM in the Irkutsk Oblast. The belonging of some towns and settlements of the first stages of construction to BAM is not always obvious and does not...

The article shows how the towns of “old BAM”, such as Taishet, Bratsk, Ust-Kut, at different times became focused on the manufacturing industry. It is shown how the status of a manufacturing town affects human flows to and from the town.
The author expresses concerns about how new enterprises are creating a ‘parallel reality’ in the towns. Indigenous people are not involved in the new industrial transformations and leave the manufacturing towns, where the number of people is supported by shift workers.

The article is devoted to the study of the process of creation and development of the Kuanchengzi station located near the city of Changchun. The authors study the reasons for the appearance of the station, its urban development features and main buildings. They show the main political, military and economic events that had a direct impact on the architecture. The architecture and history of such buildings as the station building, water tower, railway club, steam mill, locomotive depot and residential buildings are described in detail. Each of these objects left a mark on the...

This article examines the architectural form of Khabarovsk’s first railway station constructed in the late nineteenth century. It explores the station’s design and construction process, emphasizing its distinctive architectural features. Various design proposals are reviewed, including previously unpublished sketches and drawings that shed new light on the adopted architectural solution. The study is based on a critical analysis of historical documents and an assessment of visual materials—specifically photographs and drawings—from that period. Particular attention is also given to the...

The article features three significant reconstructions of the Khabarovsk railway station, which differed radically from each other in their volumetric and planning structure. The changes of the 1910s were associated with the addition of the Amur railway line and concerned primarily the reconstruction of the tracks, and to a lesser extent the construction of new buildings. The decision made in the 1910s played a key role in the formation of the urban development structure of modern Khabarovsk. The article uses previously unpublished drawings and proceedings of meetings, as well as...

The article is devoted to the study of historical development and the experience of using cultural heritage sites in China related to the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The article examines the historical development of the city of Boketu known among Russian emigrants as Buhedu Station. The article presents previously unpublished archival drawings of the station plans and analyzes the modern use of historical buildings and their significance in light of the development of urban environment.

The work comprehensively depicts the Russian development of the commercial port area in Changchun. The article studies the reasons for the formation and development of the district and shows its economic potential, which led to the creation of several steam mills. The article describes the presence of trade missions of Russian companies. A large block of text is devoted to the architecture of the former consulate of the Russian Empire and its significance in the modern development. In conclusion, the author provides a general summary on Russian architecture and its place and influence...

Books are one of the oldest inventions of mankind. Today, a growing number of people on Earth no longer read and show signs of ‘functional illiteracy’. New techniques and technologies are required to convey complex, deep and emotionally coloured images to the reader of books. It is such images that form a significant part of teaching the history and theory of architecture. The article deals with the project of an electronic multimedia animated book (textbook) devoted to the philosophy and history of the Arabic style in architecture.

The article is devoted to the study of the Russian North peasant house at the present stage of its existence. The research aim is to find and analyze the transformation of some iconic elements of the architectural structure and layout as well as the actualization of innovations in folk dwelling. The research empirical basis consists of the materials obtained during 11 architectural and ethnographic expeditions to survey cultural landscapes and monuments of traditional culture in rural historical settlements of the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions.

The investigation of the Surikov House-Museum, a cultural heritage site of federal significance, was conducted in order to develop technical specifications for chemical protection of the building against biodegradation. During the investigation, samples were taken from the external load-bearing walls, where damage caused by various biodegraders was found. Analysis of the samples showed the presence of microorganisms that contribute to the degradation of building materials. The article emphasises the importance of the correct choice of means of protection to ensure the durability of the...

The article considers the influence of Tengrianism on the graphic works of artist Kaldybai Montakhayev. Tengrianism is considered as a cultural code of nomadic culture, which is widely spread on the territory of Kazakhstan. The code influences the formation of succession principles. Through the works of artist K. Montakhaev the authors consider the sense-forming factors of Tengrianism, identify and typify the archetypes and symbols that permeate this culture.