Dynamics of architectural and urban development of the Southern Baikal region

Abstract

The present comprehensive study investigates the architectural and urban development of the Southern Baikal region, focusing on the defining conceptual role of the natural framework and historically established transit trade routes. The study is aimed at identifying traditional and innovative opportunities for transforming and optimizing residential areas, as well as at determining their formative trends under unique natural and climatic conditions. The paper is based on the analysis of specific urban planning factors within a multi-component discrete dynamic system of the territory, including the interaction between human activities and natural-climatic conditions throughout the historical development of the Slyudyansky District in Irkutsk Oblast. The study examines the experience of developing foreign coastal territories. The experience of Baikal territories has been studied and differentiated in the following areas: typology of natural-planning framework, typology of transport framework, typological aspects of existing development, trends in business programs, tendencies in the transformation of coastal territories. The factors of territorial-spatial system organization are determined by historically established transit trade routes in the structure of the natural framework of the Baikal region. The relevance of contemporary approaches to land use under current socio-economic conditions and the preservation and reclamation of natural conditions serve as the foundation for enhancing the quality of architecture of prospective developments and improving the structural stability under seismic conditions.