SPATIAL REPRESENTATION OF DESTROYED CITIES OF SYRIA

Abstract

An objective comprehensive assessment of the extent of destruction in post-conflict regions is a topical theme of scientific and applied importance. In March 2019, an atlas of 15 destroyed cities in Syria was developed and published under the aegis of the United Nations (based on satellite images). Maps of the atlas make it possible to assess the destruction of the spatial structure of cities. Catastrophic spatial destruction is the loss of 75-100% of the center's buildings, most geographic sectors of the city and its suburban area. In the process of analysis 8 (out of 15) cities under analysis are included into this category. Most of these cities are centres of the destroyed historical axes of settlement in Syria. The main element of scientific novelty of the study is the typology of spatial destruction of cities and their suburbs. In this work the transition from the typology of destroyed cities to the modeling of options for their primary (early) reconstruction has been made.