Nadzieje i rozczarowania - trudna droga do Dzielnicy Uniwersyteckiej

• Autorzy: Lisowski A.

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Hopes and disappointments - Hard way to the University Quarter

• Języki publikacji: PL

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The idea of creation of the University Quarter in Warsaw, can be regarded as an exceptional situation, because the formation of a specific atmosphere of Latin Quarter, like in Paris takes a long time, though the contemporary dynamics of urban spatial transformations can accelerate this process. The Main Campus of University of Warsaw was located closed to the King's Route on the edge of Warsaw Escarpment of the Vistula river valley in 1816. The growth potential of the University below the slope of the escarpment was noticed in 1916. First university building was erected there in 1970. University Quarter concept was presented by a team of architects lead by Jan Rutkiewicz in 1997. Design was an ambitious task. It had cover an area of approx. 5-7 hectares, with objects for research and teaching, and the areas for sports and recreation. University Quarter had to integrate areas situated above and below the escarpment and provide functional and spatial availability Vistula River. The project envisaged the construction of attractive objects, mixing the public interest with commercial functions, and extensive use of public spaces. The long-term goal of the project was to increase the opportunities for development of Warsaw and its central part by revaluation of land on both sides of the river and the launch of the functional and spatial "return" of Warsaw to the Vistula river. Making succession of functions has never been an easy task for designers of space, due to the divergent interests of actors involved in these processes, ranging from policy-makers and planners, and ending with the current residents of such areas. The beginning was promising. In 1993 the development plan of University of Warsaw Library (UWL) was adopted in Powiśle district and UWL building was opened in December 1999. The new investment drew the attention of potential users and investors in the previously neglected part of the city where a significant share of communal land allowed faster decisions on changes forms of land use. The project introduced new categories of users and service functions, not only related to academic life, but also the general public. In new library building the service and commercial spaces appeared, and the roof in the form of a garden became a place of leisure activities for visitors, including an increasing number of Warsaw residents and tourists. In the neighborhood attractive forms of catering services, small business and shops started to develop. The euphoria of the academic community after the opening of the University Library was short-lived, because during the next decade Powiśle district was an area of the implementation of other public investments ( the Świętokrzyski Bridge, the tunnel under Wisłostrada and the Copernicus Science Centre), which took into account a little of the expectations of academic community, and were partially implemented in the areas planned to be taken over by the University of Warsaw. University has lost the ability to use of some plots below the escarpment, south of Świetokrzyski Bridge and above the tunnel under Wisłostrada. Start of construction of the second metro line in 2009 (finished in 2015) additionally increased the attractiveness of the area. Spectacular public investments had been accompanied by a growing number of commercial projects carried out by the private sector for the purposes of office and residential services. Urban authorities at the time of construction UWL recognized the role of the University in the transformation of urban space in Powiśle, but had finally changed the composition of the entities involved in the project. This impulse was enough to have taken the initiative to private sector, ready to bear the costs associated with the acquisition of expensive land. It seems that concept of the distribution of free areas for office and residential services, which were greatly facilitated by strategic public investment and ecological values (green areas) as well as communication advantages of Powiśle district, won among the city authorities. The more steering development was replaced by „filling development”, as critics comment on such policies, but the higher standard housing and the services were to attract mare affiuent residents. Probably, such a policy would also indirectly ensure faster completion of the investment program. In the last decade, the University of Warsaw could only make an effort to rescue part of the original project of University Quarter. This period has its failures and successes. Areas attractive to the investors, unfortunately, were distributed without the university interests. Most of the planned investments included in the study of J. Rutkiewicz team were lost, but same new ones were approved for implementation. University preserved only locations (not all) north of the Lipowa street. In connection with the 200th anniversary of the University of Warsaw ( 1816-2016) the hopes to complete the planned projects by 2020 are stili alive.

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• Czasopismo: Prace i Studia Geograficzne
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: 60
• Opis fizyczny: s.73-86,rys.,bibliogr.

Twórcy

autor

Lisowski A.

• Zakład Geografii Miast i Organizacji Przestrzennej, Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa

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