The future of Polish towns

• Autorzy: Ziobrowski Z.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The views on the future of Polish towns are quite diverse. On the one hand, towns are perceived as centres of innovation, transportation junctions, or "engines of development," and, on the other hand, they are seen as hardly functional areas, suffering depopulation, failing to protect people against hazards or give them a feeling of security, and expanding onto larger and larger areas. The following are the barriers to the Polish urban development: - lack of available land for capital investments, both public and private ones, and lack of a transparent system for creating conditions of physical planning order (with interdependence between local physical plans and land integration), - poorly developed urban planning marketing, - poor public-interest protection institutions, - lack of government policy oriented on towns (including their development or regeneration), - lack of research on urban development issues. The authorities of Polish towns should precisely analyse the causes of such barriers, as well as useful models of development. In fact, that will not be sufficient. For Polish towns to face challenges, brought at least by the Berlin Declaration, they have to find support from government (e.g. the National Development Plan) and European programmes. In parallel to the creation of foundations for qualitative changes (land integration, efficient planning and decision-making procedures, effective marketing), it is necessary to increase care for the quality of public space in towns and accelerate renewal processes. Those activities will require streamlining and modernisation of legal systems and operations of the institutions serving urban and physical planning.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Poland; town; future; development perspective; urbanization; quantitative development; barrier; Berlin Declaration; qualitative development; urban planning; urban development

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Problemy Rozwoju Miast
• Rocznik: 2008
• Tom: 05
• Numer: 1
• Opis fizyczny: p.7-13,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Ziobrowski Z.

• Institute of Urban Development, Krakow, Poland

Bibliografia

• Final report from the UN Habitat II Conference, Istanbul 1996.
• Final Declaration of the World URBAN 21 Conference, July 2000.
• "The Future of Towns" - conference proceedings, Chicago 8-10 July 2004.
• Spatial Planning and Management Act of 27 March 2003 (published in Dziennik Ustaw No. 80, Item 717).