Urboecosystem as a human ecosystem

Abstract

The uncertainty, contradiction and significant contrast of theoretical approaches to the selection of the "human ecosystem" logically closes precisely on the problem of urbanization and urban settlements. It is interesting that there are very frequent diametrically opposed statements not only by different authors, but also by the same author regarding the possibility of including cities in the rank of natural ecosystems [1]. Optimism in the views on the development of cities of the world-famous architect K. Doxiadis (who believed that the surface of the globe will eventually be covered by the territory of a "continuous city") has already been replaced by a more sober view of the American architect-deurbanist W. L. Wright, who says: " Just as a tumor becomes malignant, the city, as a deadly entity, has become a threat to the future of humanity. Our great cities, these vampires, must die." Despite this, anthropocentrism in solving the problems of urbanization not only did not cease to exist, but also intensified. Therefore, if the problems of modern urbanization can be solved, then only by taking maximum account of the actual ecological properties of cities.