THE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF THE URAL HISTORIC INDUSTRIAL SETTLEMENTS: ASSESSMENT ALGORITHM
The article describes an algorithm for assessing the potential of Urals monocompany towns founded in the 18th - 19th centuries near water-driven iron-making plants and their surviving industrial sites as historically valuable and strategically important elements in the industrial development of the region. The purpose of developing the algorithm is to enable the choice of optimal transformation and development pathways in the modern context allowing for the diverse specific features of each particular settlement. The first section expounds the assessment parameters stating the current condition of the plant's territory, settlement’s transport links and its historically formed peculiarities. The second section presents an algorithm for analysis of small old industrial settlements with surviving sites of water-driven plants. The analysis covered forty company towns