Zoning of the Large Industrial Cities Based on Comfort of Living

One of the main challenges for the development of modern cities in the context of industrialization is to provide a comfortable living environment. The level of comfort is determined by the territorial interaction of natural and socioeconomic factors for the growth of the region. This problem gets a particular importance in large industrial centers with a significant environmental impact. The territorial assessment of living environment comfort entails a detailed spatial investigation of the population comfort major components. GIS Map Info was used to perform functional zoning, which included the allocation of the following areas: residential zones, public and business zones, industry and warehouse zones, resort and recreation zones.

The distribution of residential areas based on the level of comfort of the population's living environment was done using three groups of factors: transportation accessibility, social infrastructure development, and ecological state. The first group characterizes the habitat in terms of the city's provision of transportation routes for various modes of public transportation. The second group characterizes the social conditions of the population, specifically the number of educational, cultural, and medical institutions. The third block comprises the ecological state of the territory based on the criterion of atmospheric pollution. The score system allowed for comparison of specific areas of the study region throughout the full range of natural, ecological, and population comfort. Overlay procedures were used to combine the indicators for the sum of the three groups' contributing variables.

The article presents a map of the spatial differentiation of indicators of living comfort in Kryvyi Rih. The city's focus on being a major industrial center has established the leadership position of the group of environmental indicators in the situational model of the comfort of the local living environment.