The premise for the development of sustainable forms of road infrastructure in small towns is the appropriate plan at an early stage or modifi cation in the case of existing spaces. A multi-directional approach is extremely important, which takes into account the specifi city of the regional (country) road system, availability, and capacity of traffi c network, but also social and environmental factors. Effi cient management...

W artykule opisano przemiany współczesnego systemu planowania przestrzennego w kontekście równoważenia rozwoju. Szczególną uwagę poświęcono obszarowi Morza Bałtyckiego. Na tym tle zarysowano sytuacje w Polsce i opisno relacje pomiędzy planowaniem a rownowazeniem rozwoju.

Polish spatial planning results from typical for countries of Central and Eastern Europe transition . They have undergone the transformation from decentralized management system based on the dominance of state to the system of representative democracy, based on self-government administration; also territorial on regional level.

The cultural heritage objects of each country should have a major impact on the development of space. Unfortunately, most often the investment needs prevail and only the most precious historical objects are protected. Thus often a monument is preserved, but its surroundings (which put it in context) are lost forever. This article addressed the issues of cultural heritage in relation to the spatial planning system in Poland. The...