ИСТИНА

Historical-and-cultural landscape which includes natural and cultural values, first of all, from the position of geomorphology is the landscapewhich transformed by the human activities. The most complex structure exists in urban landscape. Transformation of the urban areas relief is focused on comfortable living conditions creation which often leads to destruction of micro and mesoforms of the relief, creation of new forms of relief and general planning of the surface. Changes in the morphometric characteristics of urban relief can also take place under natural exogenous, endogenous and technogenically activated processes. During long time cultural landscapes were created around cities where man made forms of relief and engineering constructions entered natural complex, expressing features of the national culture and not disrupting the internal dynamic state of the natural system. Relief conditions have a significant impact on the features of territorial development, functional zoning of the city, formation and development of its planning structure. The relief governs the architectural and artistic image of the city, its individual appearanceas a combination of a unique balance of specific natural forms, indicative planning features, historical and other sights. The assessment of natural and resource conditions for the development of urban areas is based on landscape-geomorphological analysis of the terrain. The relief forms a spatial and visual environment, determines the diversity and environmental qualities of natural and natural-cultural landscapes. The structure of the geomorphological analysis includes characteristics of the engineering properties of the relief, the degree of favorable to construction, architectural and planning solutions, the characteristics of the technogenic relief and technogenic deposits; microclimatic characteristics of the relief, evaluation of its aesthetic qualities; assessment of various geosystems conditions in urbanized areas. The problem of the seamless connection of the city and the natural environment remains of primary importance at all stages of urban development from ancient times to our days.