Methodological support for assessment of the comfort level of green spaces of public use
The purpose of the research was to reveal principles and approaches of development of comprehensive methodical provision for assessment of the comfort level of green spaces of public use. The analytical survey and comparison of the existing methods on the issue of assessing the quality, value and comfort level of green public areas were held by the authors, particularly to reveal their advantages and disadvantages. The authors have investigated the factors and groups of factors which influence is taken into consideration in one or another assessment methodology as well as their classification, degree of influence on the final indicator and degree of subjectivity of factor value determination. The main research method was an analytical method. The result of the research was the conclusion that there is no comprehensive methodical provision for the comfort level assessment of green public areas and in particular a term which would fully reflect the composition of this concept, thereby at first it’s necessary to formulate an exact definition which would determine a comprehensive index of this assessment and take into account particular assessment goals. The induction method should be used in developing a comfort level assessment method of green public areas. Characteristics of private gardening objects should determined with considering the scoring system adapted to the urban green plantations. When assessing green plantations of public use there should be applied a complex of methods allowing obtaining an integral index which would take into account quantitative and qualitative characteristics as well as reflecting spatial features of the object to be assessed.