General information
The deindustrialization of the collapse of the Soviet Union destroyed the economic basis of the existence of former industrial cities and the well-being of the population in Armenia as well. The factories, production capacities and resources were fragmented and soon were subjected to aggressive privatization by new ruling groups. The industrial wreckages of the secondary economic sector mainly perished, never being effectively incorporated into the emerging market relations. As a result, we have a fragmented, non-viable panorama of decayed Soviet aggressive architecture, ghosts of partially functioning or dead factories, voids, the primitive and scteaming architecture of commercialization, touristization, service, products of ruralization, adaptive redevelopment of residential spaces. In this regard, the aim of the work is to bring out the possibilities and perspectives of the sustainable urban development of a number of industrial cities of Armenia by revealing the dynamics of the latter's post-Soviet morphology.
