Presentation devoted to the Lodz workshop in 8-12 April 2014

1. LIMITS OF FORMAL URBAN PLANNING.
UKRAINE
Roman Pomazan
URBAN SUSTAIN
Ukraine. Kiev. 2014

2. COMMON OVERVIEW
• In 2011 Ukraine’s
parliament passed new
Urban planning codex.
• No sustainable
development
• Reduce of public influence
on development projects
• Ubiquitous and complex
corruption
• Decline of public transport
system: railways, airlines,
waterways
• Lobby of large developers
and construction
monopolies
• No real incentives for
energy-efficiency
• Designs of Zoning and
Detailed territories do not
exist for 80% of cities and
territories
• Obsolete masterplanning
paradigm

4. URBAN PLANNING LAWS 2011
Local COMMUNITY can impact on any project only at Masterplan stage
Levels: Masterplan of City – Detailed Plan of Territory – Zoning plan
NO STATE BUDGETING for Detailed plans of territories
No expertise for Urban planning projects, just PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS
Urban planning based on BUILD NORMS those are used from 1970-s
Urban planning divides all territories by definite function - MONOFUNCTION
Case studies, researches and smart urban data are NOT MANDATORY
Urban planning does NOT INCLUDE nature conservation and green building

5. MONOCENTRISM
• Downtowns
dominate in all
megalopolises: Kiev,
Kharkov, Donetsk,
Odessa,
Dnepropetrovsk,
Lviv
• Traffic jams and
uncomfortable
public transport
• Centralization of
power
• Limited local district
governance
• Small neighborhood
budget

6. BROKEN URBAN LANDSCAPES
• Neglect of
historical heritage
• Breakaway of
urban landscape
• Decay of public
spaces
• Deforestation of
green belts
• Abandoned
historical heritage
• Demolition of
architectural
landmarks
• Pseudohistorical
restoration

7. GOSTINNY DVIR

8. VOZDVIZHENKA

11. POST-SOVIET HOUSINGS’ LEGACY
• 40% of housing
stock need
sanitation
• Transport issues in
post-Soviet
microdistricts
• Mass-produced
houses have less
demand from
citizens
• Monopolies in
building
maintenance
• No regulation for
condominiums and
common property

12. STALINKI & KHRUSCHOVKI

13. MASS PRODUCED PANEL BUILDINGS

14. RETAIL IN MICRODISTRICTS

15. ART FROM MICRODISTRICTS

16. INDUSTRIAL LEGACY
• The Lion’s part of
industry facilities
are obsolete and
inefficient
• Greyfields and
brownfields cover
large
contaminated
areas
• 120 monocities
• Monopolies in
energy supply
• Social degradation
of industrial areas

17. UNDERGROUND ENGINEER STRUCTURES

18. KIEV HAVEN & RYBALSKY ISLAND

19. TELYCHKA

20. KIEV FORTIFICATIONS OF 1930-S

21. BROWNFIELDS OF 1850-1910-S

22. CHEMICAL PLANT “RADICAL”

23. ABANDONED MANUFACTURES

24. WEAK PUBLIC TRANSPORT
• No law about
Open sky
• Absence of all-type
transport nodes in
cities
• Lack of transport
strategies
• Undeveloped
private aviation
• Decline of water
connections
• Lack of highways
• No local city bike
programs
• No bike
infrastructure

25. METRO LINE TO TROYESCHINA

26. MARSHRUTKA

27. LESS TRAM LINES

28. WEAK USAGE OF WATER WAYS

29. ENERGY MONOPOLIES
• Gas, water and
power supply is
under monopolies
• Low quality of
utility networks
and out-date
equipment
• Huge energy losses
in transportation
• Overregulation in
favor of
monopolies
• Numerous
obstacles for
renewables

30. TRAGEDY OF COMMONS
• Total corruption
• Social distrust
• Poor regulation of
real estate taxes
• Neglect of
archeological
heritage
• Borderization
• Ecology
unfriendliness
• Parking everywhere

31. TROYESCHINA SKYSCRAPERS

32. DARNITSYA RAIL WAY HUB

34. PODOLSKY BRIDGE

35. OVERSCALE HISTORICAL CITY’S CONTEXT

36. DESYATINNA

37. THE DNIEPER ISLANDS’ STRATEGY
• Contest design of regeneration of the
Islands in the Dnieper within borders of
Kiev.
• Sustainable development of recreation,
buffer, nature reserved areas.
• Concepts of transportation, water
treatment, nature conservation,
recreation business

38. SUSTAIN TOWN • Strategy of town development in Makariv district
of Kiev region. 169 hectares
• Sustainable development underlid for all
facilities: houses, utilities, commerce,
permaculture farms, parks and education.
• Concepts of transportation, water and waste
management, nature conservation, engineering,
construction and economics

39. RETAIL ON POZNYAKI

40. REVITALIZATION OF NEIGNBORHOODS
• Program of sanitation of housings and
revitalization of habitable microdistricts
• Energy efficiency and sustainability are
basic principles of reconstruction and
construction.
• Concepts of transportation, water and
waste management, nature conservation,
engineering, construction and economics
Pavlovo Pole
Neighborhood in Kharkov
158 housings need sanitation
45 600 inhabitants
Sanitation projectsMain types of mass produced housings
barrack type row stalinka nomenclatural stalinka
87 serie khrushevka nomenclatural khrushevka400 serie khrushevka
KT serie panelhouse 96 serie panelhouse480 serie khrushevka

41. MANIFEST OF COMFORTABLE KIEV
• Kiev is unique city with extraordinary resources for development. We, representatives of the community, wish to help
developing comfortable and living city of Kiev according to European norms. Our first goal is including this Manifest into
election programs of Mayor pretenders 25 of May 2014.
• Collaboration of 14 MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXPERTS and public organizations
• Support of 450 MEMBERS OF WORKING GROUPS
• Includes BASIC PRINCIPLES and ROAD MAP for short-time implementation
• Web site http://kyivmanifest.org.ua/
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC SPACE:
more public space,
less visual pollution,
developed ground levels but not spontaneous retail,
improvement of green belts
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPORTATION:
public transport prevails over private,
Pay for parking,
More transport nodes,
Transit avoids the center
More rights for pedestrian and bikes
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF URBAN PLANNING:
polycentrism,
The Dnieper for citizens,
open air Museum,
Revalorization and sanitation
Change of design paradigm
Smart city
GOALS:
Involve local community and politicians into development of
comfortable Kiev;
Change values and approaches in urban development;
Force pre-election talkings into the City program of reforms

42. Roman Pomazan
architecture and urban planning
Urban Sustain design group
Public Council of Urban planning of Kiev
http://us-a.com.ua/
+380687044482
office@us-a.com.ua
roman@bablowsky.com