Conceptual modeling of the terminological system of urban planning

The professional sphere “Urban planning” is one of the youngest, promising and rapidly developing branches of construction, which necessitates the study and systematization of this terminological system in the Russian language. Aim and objective of the work is to build a conceptual model of the terminological system “Urban planning”. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the definition of the hierarchical structure of this terminological system based on conceptual modeling, as well as in the identification and analysis of special units that are not recorded in dictionaries. The material for the study was urban planning terms selected by continuous sampling from dictionaries, encyclopedias, scientific articles, educational and methodological literature of building codes and regulations, thematic sites, videos dedicated to this field of activity. The analysis is based on general scientific methods, including observation, comparison, analysis, generalization, systematization. Also, the basis of the study is linguistic methods: definitional and component analysis, modeling based on the conceptual approach. The conceptual model of the term system of the sphere “Urban planning” is considered as a structured field, reflecting the general logical connection of all terminological units among themselves. The constituent elements (from the highest to the lowest position in the hierarchical system) of the model are terminological groups, subgroups and microgroups. As a result of the analysis of the studied material, the boundaries of the urban planning terminology system were determined and its systematization was carried out. A multilevel hierarchical construct of terminological units of the subject area “Urban planning” is defined, consisting of the following groups: “Fundamentals and methods of urban planning”, “Territorial planning”, “Functional and planning organization of the territory”, “Architectural and construction design”, “City improvement”, “Urban reconstruction”, “Urban ecology”, “Urban studies of the city”, which in turn are divided into terminological subgroups and microgroups. The terminological group “Fundamentals and methods of urban planning” was analyzed in details. About 290 terms have been studied, among which 35 are not recorded in academic terminological dictionaries. The conceptual scheme of this terminological system has a multi-level hierarchical structure and consists of 8 terminological groups, 23 terminological subgroups, 9 terminological microgroups, in total 20 thematic blocks are allocated]. The intersection relations of terminological subgroups as part of the studied terminological system are also established.

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