PRIMARY ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL CONFIGURATION OF THE CENTERS SYSTEM IN BARNAUL

The article presents the process and results of the primary survey of spatial configuration of urban centers in Barnaul. A complex methodology includes the sociological survey based on questionnaires and qualimetric and graph-analytic interpretation of the data obtained. 283 respondents are interviewed in 11 residential districts of Barnaul which include the largest objects of social attraction. According to the average time of reaching the certain functional groups the respondents' desire to change their place of residence and / or employment, the degree of similarity to the downtown is identified.
It is shown that the centers system in Barnaul has the double nature: the downtown, including the historical district, and the sub-downtown of Novoaltaisk satellite town. The modern spatial configuration is polarized: centrality of the newly built districts near the Airport as well as of the left-bank suburbs is significantly lower in comparison with the rest area and reduces westwards. At the same time, a number of territories (districts near the hubs of Pavlovskii Trakt and Malakhova str., the Novyi Rynok (New Marketplace)) are distinguished among the western districts as having rather a high qualimetrically estimated level of centrality.
Based on the social attractiveness of urban functions, the decisive role of the historical center of Barnaul is shown for the development of the global centripetal trend. It is shown that the priority development the functional groups of sub-downtown occurs westwards to highway hubs of the Pavlovskii Trakt. This can provide the formation of more even polarization of the spatial configuration of centres in Barnaul. The urban centers system should include three cores: Novoaltaisk sub-downtown – Historical Center (downtown of Barnaul) – airport sub-downtown.
The research results may be useful either for the correction of Barnaul City Master Plan or the development of downtown employment districts in the western region of Barnaul.

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