Abstract:

Most of the contemporary cities of the world and Ukraine from the time of its occurrence to the present are several stages of development associated with their socio-economic and technological and industrial development. These are the following stages: pre-industrial, industrial, and post-industrial, usually transitional periods occur between the above-mentioned stages. At the moment, there are no cities that would be at the pre-industrial stage of growth. Most of the world's cities are industrial, or those that are at the stage of transition to post-industrial. It is up to the last and belongs to Kharkiv. As a city that was a powerful industrial center, in modern conditions, Kharkiv is at the transformational stage to the post-industrial city. The main factor that contributes to this is undoubtedly economic, which has different manifestations: from the simple decline of individual industries, to the development of modern scientific and IT activities.

Cities are an extremely important form of spatial organization, developing and deepening their functions in the process of evolution, rapidly changing the face of the planet and generating many new and new problems of society and civilization in general. Modern cities are a combination of history, culture, industry and social goods, to meet any needs of modern society. In the history of its existence, most cities in the world have been transformed from the banal place of residence of the population, which had more socially attractive conditions of existence, to the poles of the territory. A modern city is a city that has a great heritage from the industrial age and dynamically develops in the post-industrial period, which sets other rhythms of life, rethinking values that affect the development of man and space.

Kharkiv is a typical Ukrainian and Eastern European city that, having a significant industrial heritage, is at the stage of transition to post-industrial development. The main preconditions that facilitated such a transition were political and economic transformations in the country, which endured the industrial development of the city, but stimulated the sphere of services..