"Urban Transformation and Conversion in Ukraine: A Case Study of Kyiv”

Dmytro Liashenko, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Taras Shevchenko university of Kyiv, Ukraine
After introducing the basic concepts of
transformation and conversion, the links between
industrial development and conversion will be
explored through an analysis of historical factors
that shaped urban development in the Ukrainian
context in the 19th, 20th and first decades of the
21st century (military communism, planned
economy, industrialization, migration of population
from rural areas to big cities, transition to market
economy, gentrification). As examples, urban
transformation projects in Kiev (Khreshchatyk
Street #1, Arsenal Plant #2, Bolshevik Plant #3,
Sapernoe Polye #4/Kommunist Plant) will be
shown.