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Urban Design I. Urban Composition fall 2023_24
e-Learning CoursesThe course is aimed at students of the 3rd semester of engineering studies in the field of Architecture. It is an introductory course to Urban Design. Students learn the basic concepts and principles related to town planning, urban design and urban composition. Students learn the methods of analyzing urban space and the basic principles of design during theoretical and practical classes, designing an urban composition for a specific...
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Architectural and urban theories in urban regeneration
e-Learning CoursesThis course deals with key issues associated with contemporary architectural and urban teories associated with transformation and revitalization of the distressed / degradated areas and buildings / objects. The architectural topics will be presented by dr Ksenia Piątkowska and Prof. Lucyna Nyka, while urban topics will be discussed by Prof. Piotr Lorens. Particular topics and themes will be presented according to the individual...
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Multi-level governance w procesie ustanowienia Wymiaru Północnego Unii Europejskiej
PublicationArtykuł ukazuje proces podejmowania decyzji w celu ustalenia Wymiaru Północnego w kontekście multi-level governance. Analiza koncentruje się na instytucjonalnych i proceduralnych aspektach wertykalnego przekazania władzy. Jej wyniki wykazały właściwości wielopoziomowego sprawowania rządów w fazie powołania zewnętrznej inicjatywy makroregionalnej Unii Europejskiej. Pozwoliły one także na włączenie się do debaty na temat możliwości...
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Exploring governance among social co-operatives: three models from Poland
PublicationThere has been overly interest regarding social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in theory and practice. In this paper the author introduces the workings of governance of small social enterprises i.e. social co-operatives, acting in most cases for the purpose of work and social integration of the marginalized, at the bottom of the pyramid of socio-economic system. The aim of this paper is to provide insights into under researched...
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Evolution of Edges and Porosity of Urban Blue Spaces: A Case Study of Gdańsk
PublicationCurrent waterfront studies focus mainly on a land-based perspective, failing to include the water side. Water is, however, not just a resource for port and industrial purposes and an edge to the waterfront; it is also a feature of the waterfront and the complex relation between water and city. Thus, the article suggests that water-land edges need to be re-contextualised, taking into consideration also their shape, functionality,...
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Platform governance for sustainable development: Reshaping citizen-administration relationships in the digital age
PublicationChanging governance paradigms has been shaping and reshaping the landscape of citizen-administration relationships, from impartial application of rules and regulations by administration to exercise its authority over citizens (bureaucratic paradigm), through provision of public services by administration to fulfil the needs of citizens (consumerist paradigm), to responsibility-sharing between administration and citizens for policy...
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The green waterfront of a city. Where are the limits of good planning? Gdansk case
PublicationThe aim of the article is to present the role of green public areas of waterfronts in shaping the image of cities, and the threats to such landscape which may be caused by wrong planning decisions. The case study of Gdansk sea-shore area in Poland is presented as an example to illustrate the values and potential of the waterfront landscape which can be easily destroyed by inadequate spatial development. Some theoretical studies...
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Beyond quid pro quo: good soldiers and characteristics of their helping behaviours
PublicationPurpose – Good soldiers are people who engage in citizenship behaviours “to do good” instead of “to look good”. The purpose of this article is to explore the motivations behind and the specific characteristics of behaviours of the good soldiers in the context of work using social exchange theory (SET) as a theoretical framework. Design/methodology/approach – 47 dyadic interviews with 94 individuals from three organisations...
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Greenery and Urban Form vs. Health of Residents: Evaluation of Modernist Housing in Lodz and Gdansk
PublicationUrban forms can have numerous direct and indirect effects on the health of residents. This article focuses on the rela‐ tionship between health and urban form, in particular the role of green open spaces. The goal is to identify criteria for evaluating the impact of physical forms such as streets and open spaces, green infrastructure, and built structures on urban health. These criteria are then used to identify paths for the redevelopment...
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A city is not a tree: a multi-city study on street network and urban life
PublicationChristopher Alexander, a British-American scholar, differentiated an old (natural) city from a new (planned) one by structure. The former resembles a “semilattice”, or a complex system encompassing many interconnected sub-systems. The latter is shaped in a graph-theoretical “tree”, which lacks the structural complexity as its sub-systems are compartmentalized into a single hierarchy. This structural distinction explains why, or...
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Side Effects of National Immunization Program: E-Governance Support Toward Elders' Digital Inclusion
PublicationIn response to the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union (EU) governments develop policies to regulate exclusive health protection actions that consider societal needs with the emphasis on elders. Given that the EU vaccination strategy uses a centralized ICT-based approach, there is little guidance on how seniors are included in national immunization programs (NIP). In this paper, we addressed a knowledge gap of the side effects...
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Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland
PublicationDevelopment trends regarding the business-related urban complexes seem to evolve from the “big-box” towards the more “multi-use” types of structures. Within it, the special role is reserved for places, which—due to economic, political, and geographical reasons—have not been previously considered as major business hubs. Only recently, places like cities in Central and Eastern Europe have become attractive locations for business...
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Landscape as a Potential Key Concept in Urban Environmental Planning: The Case of Poland
PublicationRapid urban development increases the consumption of materials, energy, and water, resulting in an overproduction of waste and emissions. These cause many environmental threats, such as ozone layer depletion and rain acidification, leading to climate change. Therefore, the question arises on how to improve the effectiveness of tools that strengthen environmental protection. This discursive article presents an approach stressing...
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Doing well by doing good — CSR in a global context
PublicationMotivation: Nowadays, there is a general understanding that stakeholders are crucial for the successful enterprise. There is also a need to think about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a global context. Never before corporations enjoyed so much power and authority. Corporations need to evolve, re-think their strategies and change their processes accordingly. However, as of now, there is no agreed way of measuring overall...
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The Urban Mentoring as a New Method of Participatory Urban Planning in Poland
PublicationTwenty-five years after the return of democracy and the beginning of basing the country's economy on neoliberal developmental paradigm, Poland adopted the regulations regarding management of urban policy, which had been wait for over a decade (accession to the EU). The National Urban Policy as well as the Act on revitalization have defined, in a modern manner, the field of cooperation between the local government, the administration...
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Doing Well by Doing Good- CSR in a Global Context
PublicationNowadays, there is a general understanding that stakeholders are crucial for the successful enterprise. There is also a need to think about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a global context. Never before corporations enjoyed so much power and authority. Corporations need to evolve, re-think their strategies and change their processes accordingly. However, as of now, there is no agreed way of measuring overall sustainability...
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Urban planning and design issues
e-Learning CoursesThis course deals with an overview of the contemporary urban planning and design issues
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A standard analytical method as the common good and pollution abatement measure
PublicationA standard method can be considered as a common-good “resource,” and the solution to “the commons” problems usually lies in societal self-organization. The multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) was applied to model complex phenomena, such as the standard selection for imidacloprid determination. In this process, the standard was self-selected by the analytical chemistry society. The results show that analytical chemistry is a...
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Developing the Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure as a Tool for Urban Air Quality Management
PublicationUrban structure is an important factor that shapes the process of urban ventilation and pollution dispersion. With proper planning of the urban spatial layout, city breathability can be effectively regulated, contributing to urban air quality improvement. This paper investigates the development and current management of urban systems of green and open spaces in four Polish cities: Gda ´nsk, Warsaw, Pozna ´n and Wrocław, with a...
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Urban Railway within the Linear Urban Structure: the Case Study of Perm, Russia
PublicationThe paper analyses the ten years’ experience of Perm to develop its system of the urban train trying to reveal the reasons for its modest performance and decline in the passenger traffic. The authors show how the Urban Train fits within the city urban structure and eval uate the potential of the Urban Train to become a feasible solution to the problem of connecting the periphery with the city centre. Furthermore,...
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state aid for sustainable urban development
Open Research DataThe dataset encompassed a choice of important legal acts with respect on the usage of EFRD for urban projects, a list of selected bibliography as well as a list of selected individual notifications of state aid measures being part of the Sustainable Urban Development Programme in the period 2014- 2020. As a comparison, an example of individual EC decision...
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Small Urban Hacks - Big Impact! Tackling major urban challenges through acupunctural smallness
PublicationSmall urban hacks, acupunctural action and process-oriented planning approaches might appear to address quite a socio-romantic attitude towards our urban environments. In this chapter, our aim is to remedy such a biased view, demonstrating the impact and potential of smallness in the context of major urban challenges. Small urban hacks and their multi-faceted and creativity-driven approaches of small is beautiful are selected from...
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Relevance of Urban Freight Transport Modelling Towards the Challenges of Urban Freight Policy
PublicationThe main objective of this paper is to investigate how recent trends in urban freight transport analysis and modelling are related to urban freight measures set out in Gdynia’s 2016 Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan. Building on the literature a review framework was defined including 1) stakeholders, 2) descriptors, 3) objectives and 4) solution approach applied in freight modelling efforts. It was clear that the implementation...
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Enhancing Economic Development Through ICT-Based Governance: Evidence for Developing Countries
Publicationhis shows novel empirical evidence on how e-government solutions enhance the emergence of inclusive societies, increase institutional quality, and through that channels dynamize economic development in developing countries. With this aim we examine digital development inequalities adopting 2 core ICT indicators: mobile cellular telephony and Internet users; and gross per capita income and Human Development Index to show the level...
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GOOD HEALTH PRODUCTS AND POLYMER COMPOSITES OBTAINED WITH THE USE OF NATURAL ORIGIN MICRO- AND NANOFIBERS
PublicationThe aim of this work was focused on good health products and polymer composites obtained with the use of natural origin micro- and nanofibers. Many different type of the natural plants are used in the production of good health products and polymer processing like curcuma, cellulose, microalgae and others. Often are used as a antioxidants and fillers. In this work the effect of algae and cellulose as a microfillers on the chosen...
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Urban hydrology 2023/24 (winter)
e-Learning CoursesThe course provides support for teaching the subject of Urban hydrology during the 3rd semester of MSc Studies in Environmental Engineering (Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering). The course covers hydrological issues related to urban catchments. Wsparcie dla nauczania przedmiotu Urban hydrology na kierunku Environmental Engineering (WILiŚ). Przedmiot realizowany na III semestrze studiów II stopnia. Obejmuje zagadnienia...
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Urban hydrology 2022/23 (summer)
e-Learning CoursesThe course provides support for teaching the subject of Urban hydrology during the 3rd semester of MSc Studies in Environmental Engineering (Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering). The course covers hydrological issues related to urban catchments. Wsparcie dla nauczania przedmiotu Urban hydrology na kierunku Environmental Engineering (WILiŚ). Przedmiot realizowany na III semestrze studiów II stopnia. Obejmuje zagadnienia...
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Urban hydrology 2023/24 (summer)
e-Learning CoursesThe course provides support for teaching the subject of Urban hydrology during the 3rd semester of MSc Studies in Environmental Engineering (Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering). The course covers hydrological issues related to urban catchments. Wsparcie dla nauczania przedmiotu Urban hydrology na kierunku Environmental Engineering (WILiŚ). Przedmiot realizowany na III semestrze studiów II stopnia. Obejmuje zagadnienia...
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Port Cities within Port Regions: Shaping Complex Urban Environments in Gdańsk Bay, Poland
PublicationPort cities located within various metropolitan or functional regions face very different development scenarios. This applies not only to entire municipalities but also to particular areas that play important roles in urban development—including ports as well as their specialized parts. This refers also to the various types of maritime industries, including the processing of goods, logistics operations, shipbuilding, or ship repairing,...
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Principles, Governance, and Coproduction of the Creative Ageing Policy
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How Good are the Design Tools in Power Electronics?
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W stronę spersonalizowanego miasta?
PublicationOd czasów Platona i Witruwiusza nie ustają wysiłki na rzecz dążenia do prawdy, dobra i piękna skupione wokół miasta jako idei politycznej i przestrzeni fundamentalnie egzystencjalnej. Towarzyszy im od wieków myślenie o idealnej organizacji i kompozycji miasta, o poczuciu podmiotowości mieszkańców i użytkowników, doświadczaniu przez nich czasu i przestrzeni. Szczególnie w ostatnich dekadach, gdy już nie przestrzeń, a czas i jego...
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Resourcing in social enterprise – content analysis of 'good practices' profiled in 'Atlas of social economy' in Poland
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to analyze and show what processes accompany resource mobilization among social enterprises. For this, the author uses a sample of 25 ‘good practice’ examples selected and presented in ‘Atlas of social economy’ in Poland, in the most popular and well-established knowledge base web portal on social economy and social enterprise in Poland. The author makes an attempt at deconstructing the profiles of the...
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Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure in the Top 30 Listed Non Financial Companies in Poland
PublicationThis paper offers a first analysis of the relationships between corporate governance models and rules and ownership structure of the top 30 Polish firms listed at the WSE (not considering foreign firms and/or the Polish branches of foreign firms listed at the same stock exchange, nor the financial companies and the banks). The general picture depicted by this analysis is putting into evidence the increasing importance of institutional...
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A Method for the Evaluation of Urban Freight Transport Models as a Tool for Improving the Delivery of Sustainable Urban Transport Policy
PublicationThe article presents a method which helps local authorities to evaluate urban freight transport models. Given the complex requirements for input data and the inability to supply them for most cities, a proper quantitative evaluation of model functionality may be quite difficult for local authorities. Freight transport models designed to support sustainable urban freight transport objectives are a particular example. To overcome...
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URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS
PublicationMentor&Student Research Lab is a common initiative of the members of Gdańsk University of Technology student research club, Urban Revolution Laboratory LEM-ur and International Society of City and Regional Planners ISOCARP. The aim of the event was to promote collaboration of professionals and the student in the area of research on the city and the region. During three months' Workshop five groups leaded by ISOCARP Mentors performed...
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Weronika Maria Mazurkiewicz dr inż. arch.
PeopleJest adiunktem na Wydziale Architektury Politechniki Gdańskiej w Katedrze Urbanistyki i Planowania Regionalnego oraz czynnym architektem urbanistą.Od 2018 roku jest również członkiem Zarządu Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich oraz stowarzyszenia AESOP (Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures). Odbyła staże badawcze w kilku instytucjach badawczych w tym University of Ljubljana, University of Technology of Wiena, University...
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The Impact of Decommissioning Cemeteries on the Urban Ecosystem
PublicationThe decommissioning of cemeteries noticeably transforms the urban fabric. The purpose of this article was to determine what impact the decommissioning of cemeteries has on the urban ecosystem. For this purpose, it was necessary to assess the value of cemeteries within the urban ecosystem. Cemeteries are classified as urban green spaces, and their value as preservers of flora and fauna in local ecosystems has been proven. However,...
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Arch./Urban Project II
e-Learning CoursesA design studio focused on issues related to the creation of sustainable and climate-responsible facilities. The design task is related to the concept of development of the Gdańsk University of Technology campus. The implemented project will be both a task related to urban and architectural design. A very important element of the design process will be a smooth transition between various scales and problems that architects and...
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Integrating environmental issues with the practice of urban planning
PublicationEnvironmental protection of urban areas has become a common concern among academics, policy makers and urban planners. Therefore, environmental issues are often underlined and incorporated into many strategies for urban development. In the article a discussion about the development of the concept of sustainable development in the context of urban planning and international policies is presented, followed by a review of planning...
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DETERMINATION OF OBJECTIVES FOR URBAN FREIGHT POLICY
PublicationBackground: Decisions regarding strategic planning of urban freight transport very often are based on superficial assumptions inadequately reflecting the actual character of encountered challenges. The trend may be observed to adapt isolated solutions without supporting measures and verification of expected outcomes. Selected urban freight solutions have a significant potential to alleviate transport related problems, but they...
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A conceptual framework for assessing power and governance in contemporary democracy
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Peptidoglycans in cutting fluids – a good indicator of bacterial contamination?
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COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Local Government as an Actor in Collaborative Governance – Partner or Leader?
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Governance jako podejście teoretyczne – kilka kwestii spornych
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Safety and security governance problems of critical systems and infrastructures
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono kilka problemów związanych z zarządzaniem bezpieczeństwem i ochroną informacji w systemach i infrastrukturach krytycznych.Bardzo ważne jest zidentyfikowanie i scharakteryzowanie infrastruktury krytycznej. Przedstawiono nowe wyzwania związane z łączeniem podejścia bezpieczeństwa i ochrony informacji w procesie podejmowania decyzji
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Urban Mentoring as a new polish management technique in participatory planning
PublicationA decade of experience in implementation of numerous urban modernization projects in Poland resulted in a lively debate on socialization of the planning process, in which the matter of the public space quality has become the center of gravity. In those years, transformation from the classic administrative model of „bureaucracy planning” to the model of „management planning” has not been complete. The socialist primacy of the public...
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LEVEL OF DETAIL CATEGORIZATION FOR THE APPLICATION IN URBAN DESIGN
PublicationUrban planning and urban design involve complex processes that require detailed information about the visual information of a place at various scales. Different graphic tools, such as game engines, are evolving to use urban representation fields. The concept of "level of detail" (LOD) has been used to categorize the level of detail in AEC applications such as BIM and GML for urban representation models. However, there is a need...
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Social enterprises as a fertile ground for reducing social and economic exclusion - good practice examples from Poland
PublicationThe work briefly outlines the two dimensions of value generated by social enterprises to the economy and society. This is done in reference to the social cooperatives in Poland that are good examples of social enterprises according to EMES indicators