ABSTRACT
Currently, the existing investment programs provide for the reconstruction of the historical center of the city at the house level, including in the aspects of technical and technological solutions. It does not take into account the urban planning component of this process, the requirement of the complexity of the development of the transformed urban environment, including providing it with modern objects of service infrastructure, transport, engineering, landscaping, etc. The purpose of the study is to develop requirements for ensuring a comprehensive transformation of the urban environment of the center, taking into account the continuity and current trends in the development of the city. At the same time, the study is limited to the consideration of residential development in the central planning zone of Saint Petersburg. The article does not consider aspects related to property-legal, organizational-bureaucratic, investment and other issues related to the resettlement of citizens and the recognition of their housing as dilapidated or dilapidated. The stated integrated approach to the reconstruction of the residential environment of the central part of the city has been tested by experimental design. Proposals are presented to clarify the legal and historical and cultural documentation governing the development.
