W artykule przedstawiono problemy, jakie wystąpiły podczas wykończenia podłogi galerii handlowej w Warszawie. Przybliżono budowę dwóch zastosowanych posadzek żywicznych, fazy technologiczne wykonania tych posadzek, napotkane problemy z powierzchnią stropu, na którym miały być wykonane posadzki, wdrożony sposób naprawy oraz problemy w wykończeniu wierzchniej warstwy posadzki żywicznej (pęcherze powietrzne). Sformułowano możliwe przyczyny ich powstania.
In her article, the author undertook an attempt to describe the transformations in trade by way of analysis of trends related to contemporary shopping centres in Poland. Besides the review of definitions, she presented the so-called generations of shopping centres, or forms of their evolution, that constitute an answer to the changing trends in consumption. The criteria that decide membership in one of the four singled out generations of shopping centres are functions, which the shopping centre may perform, as well as the line-up of the mall, together with taking into account the operators operating in the centre.
This paperdeals with the issue of spatial forms of shopping structures within contemporary cities. In particular, the interrelations between the large-scale shopping structures and the form of cities are being discussed. The special attention is paid to the differences in this respect between the forms contributing towards increasing the role and importance of city centers and the ones of suburban origin, making the central districts of cities structurally weaker. In this context the example of the „Renoma” Department Store in Wrocław was brought, as its renewal and extension in the first decade of the 21st century has contributed towards improvement of city center structures and made possible – atleast to some extend – limiting suburbanization of the commercial structures.