Some Issues of Reconstruction of Public Centers and Conservation of Historical Cultural Heritage in Yerevan

摘要

Within the last 20 years due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the declaration ofindependence of the Republic of Armenia, the establishment of new economic relations as well asthe absence of centralized state means, an unregulated and undesirable process of construction hascome into being. These changes made the gap between the reality and the present documents ofurban planning projects, legislative documentations and socioeconomic relations even deeper.In the current social-political situation it has become a necessity to define the main trends of thedevelopment of the city of Yerevan and the reformation of its center. Moreover, these trends shouldcorrespond to the existing legal and economic fields, which in its turn will lead to the formation ofnew public centers.