Features of the negative impact of modern infrastructure facilities in urbanized areas on the environment

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2021-12, Vol.937 (4), p.42036
• Main Authors: Bespalov, V I, Kotlyarova, E V
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Air pollution; Air pollution control; Entertainment; Environmental impact; Impact analysis; Industrial plants; Infrastructure; Urban environments
• ISSN: 1755-1307; 1755-1315
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/937/4/042036

In the paper, the authors analyze the impact of modern infrastructure facilities in urbanized areas on the quality of the environment. The first stage of the study was to consider the changes in the urban environment of recent decades, which consists in the transformation of many former industrial zones into large objects of a cultural and entertainment nature, namely shopping and entertainment centers (SEC) or complexes (SECo). The authors also pay special attention to the description of the structural diagram of typical SEC or SECo, the main sources of negative environmental impact from them, as well as directly to the types of these impacts. The analysis carried out confirmed that it would be wrong to say that the quality of the environment in urbanized areas has improved due to the replacement of industrial facilities within cities with SEC or SECo. The authors consider the further task of scientific research to be the process of constructing physical models of pollution processes and reducing air pollution for individual sources for the purpose of subsequent analysis and highlighting promising directions (methods and options) for implementing a system for combating pollution.