This article focused on the issue of local centers in suburban estates. It presents results of the surveys in Malichy and Książenice suburban estates in the Warsaw metropolitan area, differing in terms of location, morphology, social structure, shops and services offer. Residents spontaneously pointed out the location of the estate center and their preferences in this regard, and expressed their expectations and needs regarding functions the local centers. It turns out that the inhabitants of the suburbs need especially the center of a ludic, not functional character. Residents want to spend their free time and meet friends in the vicinity of their houses. These needs are consistent with the ideal of suburban life. The concentration of shops and services, in turn, raises some concerns about the loss of peace and quiet nature of the place where they live. More ambivalent attitude towards the use of local functional centers is more common among inhabitants of these settlements, where it is easier to get to a nearby town or supermarket. No practice, and at the same time no need to use local shops and services contribute to the "bedroom" character of such settlements, generate additional traffic and promote creation of new supermarkets and shopping malls. In the suburbs devoid of activity nodes often the only meeting place for the residents is spontaneously „appropriated” by them open land near the river or the forest, and the most frequently chosen forms of leisure activities are walking in the picturesque surroundings or riding a bike. Article encourages to do more research on the possibilities of changes in the development of suburban zone in the context of building interpersonal relationships, creating social capital, and searching for identity of suburban settlements and its symbolic space.
Space is a scene of many different processes changing its features, structure and land use. Processes in a time perspective consists of a series of phenomena taking place one after another. In social reality we identify three kinds of phenomena: planned, spontaneous and uncontrolled. Before the systemic change uncontrolled phenomena were found as little important due to their destructive impact on the prevailing planned order. Rapid increase of spontaneous spatial phenomena can be observed in Poland after accession to the countries of free-market economy. This article is a kind of a summary of theoretical knowledge about uncontrolled spatial processes. The author makes a review of scientific literature and sorts all the definitions and classifications into two ways of understanding this term referring to two mechanisms that create such processes. On the one hand uncontrolled processes are the sum of spontaneous behaviors and on the other hand the results that were not foreseen at the stage of spatial planning. One of the examples of widespread uncontrolled processes in Poland now are rapid changes of land-use which manifest in localizing new structures on a terrain that is completely unprepared for such investment. Uncontrolled localizations are one of those phenomena that lead to negative consequences that are difficult to resist. Spatial expansion of the most big Polish cities are ruled by the process of uncontrolled suburbanization.
The aim of this article is to identify differences in residents' expectations when it comes to the future of suburban open green space. The article confronts the vision and the plans of further development of the municipality of Lesznowola municipality near Warsaw with the preferences of all the residents and property owners regarding future of undeveloped open green space. The article presents an analysis of the SStudy of cConditions and dDirections of sSpatial dDevelopment of Lesznowola municipality, local spatial development plans and Development Strategy of the Municipality of Lesznowola until 2021, as well as the results of the survey, which was conducted in April 2015 on a representative sample of the household members in the municipality. The study has showned that both the activity of local authorities, as well as the attitude of the residents, is conducive to the further dispersion of housing on open green space. Lesznowola bases its further development on the allocation of rural areas for housing, services and production. The majority of residents in turn are in favour of either further development of only single-family housing, or slowing down the current pace of development of the municipality and absolute protection of open green space against its further development. While residents perceive the development of large-scale production and service objects as a troublesome way of land use, they are rather not opposed to the expanding of single-family housing on the open green space. The study has found that not only local authorities, but also the residents themselves underestimate the problem of the loss of open green space. The dispersion of the housing and the domination of residential function is strengthened by the belief that owning a plot of land gives unlimited opportunities to pursue the owner's own interests.
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