Journal of Environmental Treatment Techniques
2020, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages: 225-230
The property of openness of the city as a complicatedly
organized facility is also logical. The openness of the city
with this goal denotes its dynamic growth and evolutionary
development, as well as the implementation of the concepts
of dialogue space of the city (26) as a socially-oriented
prerequisite for its development – the productivity of the
transport system with the dominance of the pedestrian, the
availability of convenient infrastructure with the expansion of
green areas, the use of various energy sources and
ecologization with reasonable consumption of natural
resources, etc., that is, the focus on the consumer of today
and future generations.
The hierarchy nature of the city as a system is determined
by the levels of management if the balance of stakeholders is
maintained. The interaction of the city in the Meta – systems:
regional and national economies, its place in the cultural
complex of the country, its activity in tourism, etc. - has a
predominant connection. The transport network of the city
and its place in the meta-systems possess the functional
hierarchy. The operational hierarchy is defined by the
concept of urban development and is characterized by zones
of its predominant influence.
facility and reducing them into a single theoretical picture,
deliberately complicating the object to reveal all potential
interactions of the system parts (3, 9, 13). The
implementation of the system-based approach through the
revealed properties of goal-setting, unity and connectivity,
hierarchy and multicomponent nature, emergence and
dynamism, allows us to separate the city as a multi-level
socio-economic territorial system, within which there are
numerous interrelated processes of external and internal life
support of the population.
The system theory assumes harmony of interrelation of
the city elements as system-based complicatedly organized
facility: change of parameters of one of them in a certain way
influences change of parameters of other elements and, as a
rule, in a nonlinear way. At the same time, the resulting
nonlinearity requires certain control restrictions at each time
and taking into account the potential bursts arising in an
unstable environment (11, 15, 22, 23).
Indeed, representing the city in the form of a system of
fabric and frame, the territory is structured. Here, the
transport network, engineering infrastructure and the green
zone (public spaces) create a framework for the fabric -
buildings, structures, the transformation of which is
influenced by management decisions and innovations of
different levels. An objective analysis of the Russian cities
shows that in connection with changes in the socio-economic
conditions their environment becomes chaotic, which
actualizes the introduction of the methodology of synergetic
approach, initiating humanitarian component - the real needs
of the residents, the possibilities of transformation,
development and improvement of the urban environment (19)
in the concept of the city self-development initiated by a
variety of factors. The essence of the synergetic approach
(10) involves the coordination of States of self-organization
processes in complex systems of different nature. Indeed, the
city as a natural-anthropological and man-made system
includes all the processes of self-regulation at critical
moments, forming new structures that emphasize or violate
critically the existing state (bifurcation point) mismatch of
goal setting and surrounding circumstances. Innovations in
management can push the system to move from one level of
organization to another, thereby changing the system itself.
Important in this change is the internal state of the system
itself, the rearrangement of its elements and so on, and the
target-forming factor. At this point, randomness leads what is
left of the system to a new path of development. Once the
path is chosen, the system re-exists within the established
order until the next bifurcation.
The emergence-based nature of the city as
a
complicatedly organized facility is manifested in the variety
of interactions of its elements forming an integrity,
substantially exceeding the sum of its parts. For example, the
set of transport and communications form the infrastructure
subsystem of the city, while highlighting the person
(
population) as the atom of the city; subordination (or the
desire for subordination) to it of all the other subsystems and
indicators that characterize the city from different points of
view becomes obvious.
The dynamic nature of the city as a complicatedly
organized facility is expressed in the continuous growth of
the population, and because of the need for predictive design,
as well as in the resolution of internal contradictions between
the subsystems of the city with the priority of any of the
parties. This property determines the need for phased
monitoring and correction of any urban plans and tasks as
new, initiating changes and events appear.
In General, using the global systems of national
economy, ecology and demography, forming the outer
boundaries of the city as a system in a multidimensional
context, the city connects the territorial, industrial,
environmental, socio-economic systems of geographically
separated territory through the formation of a sustainable
system of human life activity.
Sustainable development of the city presupposes the
existence of an innovation management methodology capable
of linking together the development strategy, structure,
system processes of life support, based on socio-cultural
ideas and proclaimed values, new technical and technological
capabilities.
The system-based approach serves as the initial
philosophical basis for the study of complicatedly organized
facilities as systems. The methodology, specificity of the
system-based approach is determined by the fact that it
focuses the study on the disclosure of the integrity of the
object and the mechanisms that provide it, to identify the
diverse types of relationships of a complicatedly organized
Thus, the system-based approach allows us to study the
city as a complex object as a self-organizing integrity, the
initiation of development of which is predetermined by
planned and managed innovations. Sources of innovation can
be planned and spontaneous, allowing you to extrapolate the
dependence of spontaneity – organization on the forecast
state of the city.
The leading principles of the selected system-based and
synergetic approaches are:
- The principle of iterative cyclic nature assuming cyclic
development with continuous positive increment (change of
state) causing local stability, but global instability of the city;
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