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While there are several successful examples of successfully realized urban regeneration in larger Polish cities, as well as several ongoing projects, these processes have just started in towns. The paper presents the authors experiences with a design concept for regeneration of a 5 ha brownfield site in Goleniów, northern Poland. The authors winning competition entry was selected for proposing the...
The intensive airport-related area development is a new spatial phenomenon worldwide. The growth of air transportation and airports in Poland in the last few years is related to the economic development and progress towards contemporary standards, and was catalyzed after Poland joined the European Union in 2004, which resulted in an intensification of international contacts. Over the last years there...
Contemporary urban design paradigm of the "compact city" emphasizes the importance of density and mix of functions as key features in shaping urban space. While recent urban design theory on Poland seems to accept these elements, in the urban design practice achieving a dense urban structure comes across several challenges, such as the regulations ("Building Code") and required...
Architects and urban designers use freehand drawings as an important mean for observing, understanding, and envisioning urban space. Despite advancements in computer techniques, freehand drawing remains a quick, efficient and handy tool for urban design. Drawing the city is a broad subject, which covers several aspects of urban design: from analyses of the urban structure and morphology of urban spaces,...
The scope of the paper is to present the issues concerning the revitalization of an area situated in the centre of Katowice, where an academic quarter of the University of Silesia is emerging. Although this problem has been subject of numerous research works, workshops and competitions, the city of Katowice, despite many investments, has not managed to fully implement the revitalization of this area...
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