ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE DOWNTOWN HISTORIC CITIES OF UKRAINE

Downtown of a city or town is a spatial frame where the notion of lower middle class was formed and in which memorial events took place. After the damages of the First World War the downtown were restored and were actively functioning. In the second half of the 20th century, most downtowns were completely destroyed. The main problems downtown as an object of cultural heritage is no local strategy for the protection and conservation of valuable and monumental buildings, lack of program options using heritage as economic development.