POLDER AND CITY: SUSTAINING WATER LANDSCAPES ON AN URBAN EDGE

Lucyna Nyka

doi:10.5593/sgemsocial2016hb42

POLDER AND CITY: SUSTAINING WATER LANDSCAPES ON AN URBAN EDGE

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The question investigated in this paper is how to maintain the environmental quality of the polder landscape encompassing the city in the condition of urban pressure on this landscape. On the basis of theoretical approaches, historical surveys and introductory study models new ideas are tested on the case study of Gdansk, a city located in the Vistula River delta in northern Poland. Research shows that the city was created as a water project – its form was negotiated with the surrounding polder, with continuous changes in the water outlines adjusting the city to emerging military and economic requirements, as well as to the new urban visions. Nowadays, in the context of new urban development plans, this unique hydraulic vision of the city has to be protected and enhanced, which calls not only for environmental restoration of existing water systems, but also for introducing new ones. Therefore, any investment pressure towards the immediate polder outskirts requires innovative urban water solutions that will comply with environmental needs, strengthen resilience to river flows and help to create unique conditions of urban life for the inhabitants. The paper gives insight into transdisciplinary approaches to urban planning and consequently new possible solutions for the city of Gdansk’s – polder edge. It stresses the importance of the interdependence between environmental engineering approaches, new urban water schemes and water-related architecture in creating sustainable urban design solutions.

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Lucyna Nyka prof. dr hab. inż. arch.

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Category:: Conference activity
Type:: publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
Title of issue:: 3rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM 2016. Book 4, vol. II strony 493 - 500
ISSN:: 2367-5659
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2016
Bibliographic description:: Nyka L.: POLDER AND CITY: SUSTAINING WATER LANDSCAPES ON AN URBAN EDGE// 3rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM 2016. Book 4, vol. II/ Sofia: STEF92 Technology Ltd., 2016, s.493-500
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.5593/sgemsocial2016hb42
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