The green zone is an integral part of any city or other settlement. It is a territory outside the city limits, occupied by forest parks, forests and performing security and sanitary-hygienic functions. Such zones form a protective forest belt and often act as a place for people to relax.
Main functions and purpose
Classify green areas depending on the structure and purpose of the territory. Inside them, specially protected green areas are distinguished. They also include natural monuments, wildlife sanctuaries, forests around health centers and other areas with certain restrictions on nature management.
Such ecological systems perform a number of serious functions, including:
- Improving the state of the environment, namely: enriching the air with oxygen, softening the microclimate and radiation regime of the city, reducing the level of dustiness of the air and the concentration of harmful chemicals in it.
- Recreation. The green zone creates optimal conditions for people to relax outdoors.
- Protection against overheating of the soil, walls of buildings and pedestrian walkways.
In addition to hygienic and sanitary functions, green areas also have aesthetic value. Such territories are used for the construction of prestigious residential areas, which indicates their important architectural and planning role.
Green area
Green spaces, which are a collection of trees and shrubs and herbaceous plants in a certain territory, are divided into groups of general and limited use.
The first includes embankments, boulevards, squares, city
parks, forest parks. The second group is represented by sections of schools,
public buildings, sports and children's complexes, residential areas.
Regardless of the category of destination, the green zone plays a dominant role in the process of creating optimal conditions for humans. This applies not only to the purification of air from pollutants, but also to reduce noise, vibration, and protection from winds. Green spaces generally have a positive effect on the human nervous system, which has a beneficial effect on the livelihoods and relaxation of the population.
Recreation and Recreation Area
A person’s need for rest always exists, regardless of his place of residence.
However, the demand for outdoor recreation is increasing depending on the standard of living of the population. As welfare grows, requirements for organizing out-of-town recreation grow.
Among the main functional zones , recreational is distinguished, the task of which is to create a living growing forest that meets the needs of mass recreation of the population. Thus, green recreation areas comply with the requirements of a healthy, wholesome, and therefore with high sanitary, hygienic and aesthetic properties, recreation.
The value of green spaces
Forests of the green zone are a set of forest plantations in the suburban area outside the city limits. Such systems play an environmental protective role and provide favorable conditions for relaxation. Depending on the intensity of visits by the population, the presence of the transport network, remoteness from the settlement and the species composition, these types are distinguished:
The first includes territories located near the settlement and intended for short-term rest.
The forest-park part is characterized by picturesque landscapes, the presence of water bodies and transport routes. Also, within this part, separate zones are distinguished: walking, memorial, historical, as well as an active recreation area. The forestry part is located outside the city and mainly performs a sanitary and environmental protection role.
Legal Aspects of Suburban Areas
Among the main elements of the legal regime of green zones there are prohibitions on:
- the implementation of economic and other activities that adversely affect the implementation of the basic functions of these zones;
- hunting and agriculture, development of mineral deposits;
- the use of toxic drugs in order to protect and protect the stands.
Features of the reproduction of forests, their use and protection are established by the federal executive body. The protection of the green fund involves the organization of a system of measures aimed at maintaining and normal functioning of green areas, ensuring the normalization of the ecological situation and the creation of a favorable environment. Also, the green zone is limited by the availability of certain areas for recreation and mass visits to the population.
Landscaping
Recently, the role of green areas as a resource in the field of recreation has increased significantly. In order to maintain the positive impact of such territories and prevent the negative impact of the human factor , a well-thought-out, carefully planned forest management system is needed. That is, the important role of improving the territory of suburban areas is obvious. The main objective of such improvement is the development of integrated measures to ensure stability and protect the properties of forest phytocenoses.
Activities include environmental activities, regulation of attendance, improvement of recreational green areas. In the territories of mass visits, they create conditions for the recreation of the population: they organize playgrounds, sports grounds, a dense path network is laid, and parking facilities are equipped. In addition, the green zone, the site of which is a place of short-term rest of the population, requires regular cleaning of dead wood and household garbage. Any activities are carried out taking into account the resistance of green spaces to anthropogenic pressures.
Border designation
Based on urban planning documentation, the border of the green zone is established. Which, in turn, is carried out taking into account the interests of the population, municipalities and subjects of urban development.
Zoning of the territory of the suburban zone is presented in the territorial integrated schemes of urban planning. Even in the project for the creation and development of forestry, recommendations are made to justify the boundaries of the green zone. Also, trails, roads, streams and rivers can be used as quarterly boundaries in the arrangement of forests of green areas.
For cities and settlements located in treeless areas, instead of the green zone, protective strips of green space should be provided, located on the side of the prevailing winds. The width of such strips is individual for specific settlements.