Landscape assessment of the recreational and health cluster “Shartash forest park”

The landscape structure of modern Yekaterinburg is formed under the influence of a complex of different-scale factors of formation, the areas of predominant influence of which determine the set and spatial ratio of allotments, the nature of boundaries and the speed of development of geosystems of different ranks. The spatial and temporal landscape structure of a megalopolis determines the quality of the urban environment through a complex of stable environment-forming connections and attractive perception parameters. One of the specific elements of the landscape structure of Yekaterinburg are specially protected natural territories of regional significance — forest parks that perform environmental, environment-forming and recreational functions. The article is devoted to the results of inventory and assessment landscape studies of the territory of the recreation and health cluster “Shartash Forest Park”, located in the northeastern part of Yekaterinburg. Over the centuries-old history of development, a landscape structure has developed within the site, represented by natural territorial complexes, their derivative modifications, anthropogenic complexes and technological systems. The landscape structure is considered from the standpoint of a structural-genetic and functional-dynamic approach, as a change in the dynamic and evolutionary states of geosystems. The multi-scale landscape-forming processes have been studied, the landscape structure of the territory has been identified, the methodology and results of large-scale landscape mapping performed for the first time, which is the basis for assessing the modes of use of the territory for planning measures for the improvement of the cluster with the analysis of project proposals for development, have been considered. The established complex mosaic of geosystems, formed by natural and anthropogenic processes and connections, structural interdependencies and emergent effects, is the basis for landscape planning of the territory. The completed studies serve as an implemented element of the development of a master plan for development and the basis of the directions proposed by the authors for optimizing the territory for the effective performance of environmental and recreational functions.

landscape structure, multi-scale, hierarchy of geosystems, landscape map, landscape assessment, dynamic and evolutionary states, recreational and health cluster, Shartash Forest Park, Yekaterinburg