ECOLOGIZED CITY VS ECOCITY: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

Formulation of the problem. The concept and practice of eco-cities as a phenomenon of integrated advanced technology, green structures, ecological and cultural diversity have gained global significance and become increasingly mainstream in policy-making. Some countries are aiming to elevate their aspiration towards creating an ecological society to constitutional rank. Ukraine cannot stay away from this trend. However, semantic interpretations of the essence of an ecological and ecologized city differ from country to country. At present, neither in Ukraine nor in the world in general, there has been formed a clear vision of the “ecologized city” and “eco-city” as phenomena based on fundamentally different, even diametrically opposite paradigms of urban planning if they are considered from the perspective of structural interaction with natural ecosystems. The purpose of the article is to reveal the similarities and differences between the concepts of “ecologized city” and “eco-city (ecopolis)” at the current stage of historical development. Conclusion. According to the outcomes of UN summits on this issue, as well as other international documents, regional and national programs for sustainable development of territories should be implemented everywhere, including Ukraine. Therefore, the theory of ecologizing the existing cities and developing new eco-cities as physical spaces of the life of society with an ecological worldview and thinking, as a result of the interaction matrix of cyclically (reversibly) and evolutionary (irreversibly) transforming ecological villages, becomes relevant. This predetermines the need to create a thesaurus with the semantic content of each term, concept and definition to be interpreted unambiguously and precisely so that they are understood by everyone in the same way, forming the correct lexical corporate communication in the scientific and design sphere of eco-city planning.