The phenomenon of urban memory as a wholeness of time

The purpose of the work is to systematically comprehend the phenomenon of the city and its space in the parameters of memory, to consider the memory of the city as a whole of temporal dimension, to outline its «coordinates» in the space of Lviv and to supplement the method of their consideration in design decisions. Methodology. The main provisions of the system approach are used in the article; a set of methods and approaches that will ensure the conceptual unity of the study of theoretical and practical components - content analysis (interpretation of the essence of basic concepts), modeling methods and historical; survey of city residents, as well as graphics-analytical, cartographic methods. The scientific novelty of the work is to reveal the phenomenon of city memory as a whole of time, as well as the analysis of the city through the prism of individual, collective and historical memory. Conclusions. Understanding the memory of the city and place will allow professionals to expand the tools for substantiating design decisions, help preserve and use not only the historical but also create a new environment without harm to the environment and human development, which is especially relevant during the urbanization of the historic environment.