The Territory of the Strelka of the Volga and Oka Rivers in Nizhny Novgorod. Looking for the Addressee

摘要

The article is devoted to the identification of functional potential in the organization of the public space on the Strelka site at the confluence of Volga and Oka rivers in Nizhny Novgorod. Strelka, is a defining place for Russia. Underlining natural features of the city, Strelka plays an important town-planning, semantic and symbolic role, forming riverside panorama of the city's lower part that is nicely viewed from its upper part. Conceptual ties of natural and anthropogenic are fundamental for the idea to create here universal public space with unlimited functional potential, which may be demanded by the present and future recipient.