Information and mapping support for studying the quality of the urban environment

DOI: 10.35595/2414-9179-2025-3-31-128-141

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About the Authors

Tatyana A. Vorobyova

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography,
1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia,
E-mail: tvorobyova@yandex.ru

Mikhail V. Slipenchuk

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography,
1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia,
E-mail: slip@metropol.ru

Abstract

One of the main projects in terms of socio-economic development of Russia is the project aimed at creating a comfortable and safe urban environment. The purpose of the study was to develop the necessary information for a comprehensive study and assessment of the quality of the urban environment to improve the environmental and social living conditions of the population. The work was carried out on the territory of cities of different administrative and functional purposes and at different levels of generalization: on the territory of the entire city (Vologda, Ufa), on the territory of administrative districts and individual urban areas of Moscow. A comprehensive analysis of the comfort and safety of living of the population in the city was carried out on the basis of the information and cartographic DB GIS of the quality of the urban environment developed during the study. The structure and content of the DB includes attribute data and a set of analytical and synthetic electronic maps for six thematic blocks. The sources were materials of various nature: statistical and text information, monitoring point data, cartographic materials, space images. Great importance is given to field instrumental work on studying the most acute problems: the level of intensive load and volumes of emissions from motor vehicles, pollution of water bodies, soils and soil dust, noise and heat pollution, as well as the state of the ecological framework, provision of the city territory with green and water infrastructure. The criteria and indicators that make up a single index of urban environment quality for the Golovinsky district of the SAO of Moscow were developed, based on which its territory is differentiated by the living conditions of the population.

Keywords

urban environment, cartographic database, quality index, ecological and social conditions

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For citation: Vorobyova T.A., Slipenchuk M.V. Information and mapping support for studying the quality of the urban environment. InterCarto. InterGIS. Moscow: MSU, Faculty of Geography, 2025. V. 31. Part 3. P. 128–141. DOI: 10.35595/2414-9179-2025-3-31-128-141 (in Russian)