The concept of territorial and spatial organization of regional networks of architectural and urban heritage focuses in the territory of Ukraine

The article proposes a structural-logical and territorial-spatial model as part of the concept of formation and sustainable development of a network of focuses and areas’ of architectural and urban heritage, which are located in small provincial cities in 12 ethnic regions of Ukraine. Separate cells, united in the shortest way into areas and regions, are the structural elements of these models. They form a single network on the territory of Ukraine due to corporate inter-unit connections, communication connections between areas, cooperative perimeter connections of areas within the ethnic region, and switching inter-regional connections. In this network, there are points in villages mostly without historical heritage focuses, where information and tourist offices, small hotels and summer campuses, local libraries, and museums can be located to serve the area. The number of motels, roadside cafes, car service stations, parking lots, and other public service facilities can be increased in communication and switching focuses through which connections between areas and regions are made. The inclusion of historical sites in the creative economy of the region should also be based on the organization of traditional festive events, such as fairs in Velikie Sorochyntsi, derun festivals in Korosten, vyshyvanka, and borscht in Borshchev, etc. An important addition to the concept should be the formation of research focuses, holding master classes and art events, similar to Opishne in Poltava region, as well as in open-air museums. The concept involves the use of these network models in the study and stimulation of the processes of self-organization, sustainable development, and creative economy at the level of individual focuses, their areas, and ethnic regions. The processes of self-organization orient the sustainable development of the network towards the restoration of the historical environment of provincial cities, their inclusion in the tourism industry, in the museum, exhibition, and fair business, in the restoration of local craft production and, ultimately, in the revival of national culture and its self-identity in ethnic regions of Ukraine.