Land survey and image (cropping) city (one of many aspects)

The article describes the practice of fixing the built-up area of the historical center of St. Petersburg in general, and formal approaches to the establishment of land boundaries. It is shown that the neglect of historic homes and the Limits of the liberal interpretation the term «apartment building» has grave consequences for the conservation of urban structures of the St. Petersburg center, its unique architectural and urban planning environment. We also show how strongly regular urban structure of St. Petersburg is gradually replacing the random, chaotic urban development of neoplasm, but not for the realization of a deliberate plan, as a result of shortcomings and gaps in the mechanism of urban management, its legal services. The author argues that the current practice of land survey led to the death of not only the unique image of the city, real estate, which formed in the course of this survey, loses its integrity, unnecessarily narrows the living space of houses, more complicated mechanism of their routine maintenance, real estate loses the opportunity to develop.