Typology of Temporary Settlements for Displaced Persons

This article examines the experience of planning temporary settlements for the affected and displaced persons, evaluating global and domestic approaches. The analysis encompasses urban planning situations, volumetric-spatial, and functional-planning organization of temporary residential structures, defining typological characteristics and categorizing them. Particular attention is paid to identifying the morphology of temporary settlements as an element of the urban planning system. An overview of international and Ukrainian experiences in planning settlements of various types, capacities, locations in the settlement system, functional-planning features, and principles of residence identifies common and new aspects of grouping. Factors dependent on settlement capacity (location, planning scheme, functional-planning structure, functioning type, scalability, and population density) and those independent of it (usage type, residence time, sustainable development strategy) are discussed. The typological grouping of examined examples of temporary settlements demonstrates the possibility of categorizing the planning of temporary settlements into 4 groups based on the morphological features of urban development models: at the micro-level (urban development level) – Type 1 (up to 500 people); at the meso-level (urban fabric level) – Type 2 (up to 1000 residents); at the macro-level (urban development system level) – Type 3 (over 1000 residents); at the macro-level (settlement system level) – Type 4 (over 10,000 residents); acting as a distinct new element in the settlement system.