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• PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE / Shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of local public spaces, 23-27 May 2017, Ljubljana Slovenia

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  • A. Fikfak
  • W. M. Mazurkiewicz
  • N. Matej
  • S. Ragozino

  - Year 2017

  The Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) and partners hosted a 5-day international event addressing participatory planning of local urban public space in socially, economically and ethnically diverse communities. The event was structured in three interrelated activities: a seminar, a workshop and a field-trip. Special emphasis was given to the means of revealing shared values that local inhabitants and other...

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• Understanding the containment of public spaces: upgrading public domain

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  • R. Barelkowski

  - International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning - Year 2018

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• Public Spaces - Coexistence and Participation

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  • A. Stasiak
  • D. Wojtowicz-Jankowska

  - Year 2017

  The paper is an attempt to answer two questions: (1) how to develop positive social relations and citizenship among residents of cities in Poland and (2) howsuitable shaping of public space affects the activation and integration of local residents.The specificity of the post-war process of urbanization in Poland - a country traditionally agricultural - was its political dimension (forced 'nationalisation' of agriculture and industrialization...

• Shopping Centres - a Threat to Public Spaces?

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  • S. Ledwoń

  - Year 2007

  Obszary wewnętrznych przestrzeni pieszych w centrach handlowych stają się substytutami śródmiejskich przestrzeni publicznych miast. Mimo ich stylizacji architektonicznej na ulice handlowe nie spełniają takiej samej funkcji jak przestrzenie tradycyjne. Powoduje to zagrożenia związane ze wzrostem znaczenia konsumpcjonizmu i tworzenia zamkniętych przestrzeni prywatnych niedostępnych dla całego społeczeństwa. Mimo to mogą one być elementami...

• Energy of the City in High Quality Public Spaces in the Presence of Water.The Role of Water in Contemporary Public Spaces in Paris

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  • I. Burda

  - Year 2012

  W artykule zwrócono uwagę na jeden z aspektów energii miasta - jakość przestrzeni publicznych. Wykazano istotną rolę wody w kształtowaniu przestrzeni publicznych wysokiej jakości w obrębie przekształconych obszarów poprzemysłowych Paryża. Odpowiednie wykorzystanie nadwodnego położenia, bądź wprowadzenie elementów z obecnością wody, pozwoliło stworzyć najbardziej atrakcyjne i niepowtarzalne miejsca.

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• Planning the City Against Barriers. Enhancing the Role of Public Spaces

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  • M. Rembeza
  • A. Sas-Bojarska

  - Procedia Engineering - Year 2016

  Contemporary cities are being fragmented by growing number of technical barriers like roads, railways, infrastructural objects, that generate variety of problems of different nature. The aim of the research is to present the issues connected with such barriers in the city and the ways of solving them. Main problems are e.g.: the destruction of the complexity of urban fabric, functional disadvantages, environmental and landscape...

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• Public spaces connecting cities. Green and Blue Infrastructures potential.

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  • A. Sas-Bojarska
  • M. Rembeza

  - Year 2015

  A city fragmentation causes a lot of negative effects in urban environment such as: disconnecting the environmental, functional and compositional relations, a loss of urban compactness, chaotic development, visual chaos, a domination of technical landscape, reduction of security. This is why one of main challenges for urban planners is to connect the fragmented structures by creating friendly, attractive and safe public space....

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• The Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Cost in public works contracts

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  • B. Grzyl
  • A. Siemaszko

  - E3S Web of Conferences - Year 2018

  An important goal, implemented by EU countries under the Europe 2020 strategy, is sustainable development, which includes supporting economy that effectively uses natural and environmentally friendly resources. Solutions in this area are also promoted in tender proceedings in the area of public procurement. The LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) and LCC (Life Cycle Cost) analysis are indicated as the basis for decision-making by awarding...

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• MEDIA ARCHITECTURE AND INTERACTIVE ART INSTALLATIONS STIMULATING HUMAN INVOLVEMENT AND ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC SPACES

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  • K. Szakajło
  • L. Nyka

  - CBU International Conference Proceedings - Year 2016

  This paper examines the potential for media architecture and interactive art installations to stimulate human involvement and activities in public spaces. On the basis of theoretical approaches, case studies and interdisciplinary surveys, the paper provides insight into how screens projecting media and interactive installations in city spaces can inspire people to become active on many levels. The research is focused, both on temporary...

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• SKYSCRAPER'S PUBLIC AREAS: THE IMPACT ON SPACE AND SOCIAL LIFE

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  • A. Stefańska

  - Year 2015

  In recent years, more careful consideration is taken into social issues of designing skyscrapers by humanizing adherent internal and external public areas. Case studies of The Shard (London: 2012), 122 Leadenhall Street (London: 2014), 20 Fenchurch Street (London: 2014), Heron Tower (London: 2011), Tower 25 (Nicosia: 2013), Zoofenster (Berlin: 2012), DNB House (Oslo: 2012), Centrum Biurowe Neptun (Gdansk, 2014), Skytower (Wroclaw:...

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