Dr hab. inż. arch. Eleonora Gonda-Soroczyńska

Mgr Marta Szkaradkiewicz

Transforming a spa town into an industralial centre: A case study of Jastrzębie-Zdrój

The conducted study was aimed at answering the following question: is it possible for the industrial function to coexist with the curative function? Was it justified to convert the spa town into an industrial centre? The authors took into account the still-existing curative potential of the former Jastrzębie-Zdrój spa. The second half of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s was a time when it flourished as a therapeutic centre, with the curative facilities built before the second world war being rebuilt and modernised. The local authorities considered this to be a priority, as the spa town was the single large employer in this small town. Despite its glory as a resort in the years following the war, due to social, political and economic decisions as well as due to the exploitation of black coal which began in the 1960s, the rather miniscule town of over 8 000 inhabitants transformed into a large industrial city with more than 100 000 citizens. At first, its curative function coexisted with the rapidly developing industrial function. It turned out that it was possible for them to accompany each other, though it might have seemed before that they were mutually exclusive. The spa ...

Mgr inż. Katarzyna Sabura

Dr Jerzy Oleszek

Mgr Marta Szkaradkiewicz

Mgr Jan Kazak

Citizen participation in greenery’s preservation in the areas other than forest

The article raises the question of problematic aspects of the legal instruments working in Poland. These instru-ments are aimed at preserving the greenery ( trees and shrubs) on terrains different from woodlands by focusing on the citizen participation in greenery's preservation. Proceeding for the obtainment of tree removal permit excludes the citizen participation what by contrast is required in creation acts of the town-and-country planning as greenery's shape regulations.In rural and agricultural landscape the environmental damage caused by felling of trees is especially visible. The citizen participation in decision-making proceedings should guarantee the better resolutions and preclude social conflicts. This article is an attempt to answer the question about the opportunity for citizen participation in polish legal system in the preservation of greenery belonging to rural territories. ...

Dr Jerzy Oleszek

Mgr inż. Katarzyna Sabura

Mgr Jan Kazak

Mgr Marta Szkaradkiewicz

The spatial forms of contemporary arrangements of housing and service buildings in Lądek Zdrój

Last before 1945 spatial transforming the municipal part in Lądek Zdrój took place in 1922. . The essence of changes resulted from incorporation the Nieder Thalheim village. In 1945 , identity of the entity , so far successively shaped ,was given up. A question is a problem: to what extent, contemporary spatial forms initiated only at the beginning of 70ties are making rich or distorting the formed figure of area.A land development is an object of deliberations neighboring the main communications artery (Ogrodowa street), linking municipal part from spa, and area of the housing estate of one-family individual houses. Detailed analysis is pointing, that: Ogrodowa street was changed; the area was developed locating multi-occupied residential buildings representing different figures; they applied different, mutually inconsistent spatial concepts. It is pointing, that location of the commercial supermarket "Biedronka" is a distinct symptom of cohesion of the spring and municipal part.A housing estate of the single-family housing are detached buildings laid out in the spatial arrangement radial - belt-shaped. At diversifying forms, a kept certain uniformity of the architectural format stayed. Currently row houses carried out are representing the determined complementary character with the canon of the native style. ...