Integration of Hospital Therapeutic Gardens into the Green Frame of Sevastopol

ABSTRACT

The past decade has witnessed a series of major international events dedicated to the “return of nature to cities.” The modern processes of urban development and planning are associated with creation of comfortable and safe urban environments, the quality of life being the main criterion of the effectiveness of urban planning strategies. To the foreground come the tasks of providing the population with an urban environment that would contribute to longer lifespan and greater comfort of living for all categories of citizens. Healthy ageing is increasingly seen as the main element in urban environment quality evaluation. The comfortable urban setting with increased health improvement opportunities is an important tool to mitigate the negative consequences of urbanization, burdened by globalization and COVID-19. The urban planning and development strategies are currently undergoing changes. The green frames of urban localities, destroyed in the 1990s by unregulated development of various functional purpose, are regaining their role as the key marker of the balanced urban development and spatial planning approach. The study has been conducted within the framework of Grant 29/06-31. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.