EVOLUTION OF PEDESTRIAN STREETS IN THE CITIES OF THE XXI CENTURY
Postindustrial city is markedly different by the new structure of production and exchange of information, which gave rise to the other mechanisms of its processing and manipulation. It touched the pedestrian streets, as part of urban planning and social services. Questions about the development of pedestrian spaces in cities were actively discussed in the past two decades at various levels of social consciousness, including the idea of the so-called “new urbanism”. The study aimed at exploring the pedestrian spaces on the example of the pedestrian streets. There were considered the fundamental distinctive features of emergence mechanisms and reconstruction of pedestrian streets. In article the saturation problems of functional zoning of investigated spaces were regarded, and the scheme of functional areas combination was revealed.