Urban Planning Rationing in Conditions of Reduction of Design Rules

Abstract

The article analyzes the current changes to revise the codes of practice, in particular, SP 42 “Urban planning. Planning and development of urban and rural settlements. The transformations of the document by no means always fulfill the set goal: to exclude norms that do not meet safety requirements. The article provides arguments in defense of many provisions that were not deservedly withdrawn from SP 42. It also provides Градостроительное нормирование в условиях редуцирования правил проектирования examples of rules that could be shortened. An important conclusion of the article is the need for more deliberate transformations in a document of extreme importance for the formation of the urban environment.