The Autumn Series of Seminars Continues with the Participation of a Leading Foreign Specialist, the Scientific Supervisor of the Laboratory, Fedor Tatarinov

In the period from October 31 to December 05, 2023, the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology conducts the series of seminars on the topic "Current methods and approaches in landscape and environmental research". On November 08, the second seminar of the series on the topic "Pedestrian comfort as a tool for urban landscape research" was held.

The team of collaborators, consisting of the leading researcher of the Laboratory Natalia Shartova (team leader), associate Professor of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies of the Higher School of Economics Mikhail Grishchenko, interns-researchers of the Laboratory Polina Koksharova and Alexander Kostyuk, as well as scientists of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University Elizaveta Mironova and Mikhail Varentsov, spoke about the concept of an accessible city. The city is not only a building and transport routes, but also a friendly space for residents, where people can get to everyday destinations on foot. Adapted for pedestrians, the city arouses desire and makes it possible to perform physical activity that is beneficial to the health of the population, and also allows you to feel comfortable and safe in an urban environment. It is becoming increasingly important to assess the parameters of urban space in the context of creating a healthy city, such as, for example, the availability of green infrastructure for its residents.

The seminar summarized the results of the adaptation of the pedestrian comfort index, originally developed in Western countries, to the Russian reality on the example of  Ninny Novgorod and Moscow. The results of a practical study of pedestrian comfort in the context of assessing the heterogeneity of the urban environment of  Ninny Novgorod from the point of view of meeting the criteria of a healthy city, as well as the possibility of using the proposed approach for applied areas – by the example of assessing the inner-city heterogeneity of the vulnerability of the population to thermal stress in Moscow.