ASSESSMENT OF COMFORT OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE CITY OF IZHEVSK)
The availability of housing is one of the most important basic human needs. The development of construction technologies, the emergence of more advanced structural materials and building mechanisms have significantly accelerated the process of building construction. The developed system of mortgage lending stimulates the growth of the purchasing power of the population. The problem of housing shortages is gradually weakening and replaced by the problem of excess housing supply over demand for it. In the new conditions, the potential buyer of the apartment is not only interested in its size and price, but also in the environment surrounding the selected house, its comfort. The need to assess the comfort of the urban environment in Russia has been discussed in the last 5-6 years. Comfort is the optimal state for a person of the surrounding social, economic, natural, infrastructural environment, ensuring the health and performance of individuals or their communities. Its level is estimated by a whole group of multidimensional, multidirectional indicators, some of which do not have a quantitative form. It is necessary to use an aggregated, integral, that is, a composite indicator for their successful sharing. Integrated indicators of urban comfort have significant drawbacks, applied in practice. The authors of the article proposed to apply a modified formula for calculating comfort, proven by practice. The authors used the developed indicator to assess the comfort of the urban environment in 247 Izhevsk new buildings. The results obtained showed the effectiveness of the methodology and the possibility of using the indicator in the practical activities of the developers of the city.