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Towards Compact City 2.0 – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 5, February 2022
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 5, from February 2022. The result/ aim of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of land use plan. The participatory methodology...
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A Cost-Effective Method for Reconstructing City-Building 3D Models from Sparse Lidar Point Clouds
PublicationThe recent popularization of airborne lidar scanners has provided a steady source of point cloud datasets containing the altitudes of bare earth surface and vegetation features as well as man-made structures. In contrast to terrestrial lidar, which produces dense point clouds of small areas, airborne laser sensors usually deliver sparse datasets that cover large municipalities. The latter are very useful in constructing digital...
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A unified approach to the analysis of electric energy and fuel consumption of cars in city traffic
PublicationForecasting fuel and electricity consumption is an important factor determining the direction of changes in road engineering solutions, traffic management, selection of routes for public transport and development more efficient car drive systems. With a reliable and easy-to-use computational tool, it is possible to reduce the consumption of primary energy sources and reduce the emission of toxic compounds in cities. An analysis...
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Looking for New Ideas of Public Space – Public Space Projects in Gdansk Reinforced by Art Activities
PublicationRevitalization of public open spaces is a complex enterprise in Poland in terms of the art, cultural andinformation aspects of this process. Simultaneously the public space should play an important role whenbuilding the quality of revitalization programs and the quality of city development. The new art and culturalactivities are the revitalization tools, which are also the good examples of bottom up ideas helping to start aprocess...
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Authenticity of Architectural Heritage in a Rebuilt City. Comments to Vaclav Havel’s Impression after His Visit in Gdansk in 2005
PublicationThere is no doubt that authenticity is a cardinal feature of architectural heritage and should be protected in the same way as historical and cultural value of monuments or their integrity. Sometimes, one decides to reconstruct a destroyed historical building due to important emotional, scientific, artistic or political reasons (e.g. the Zwinger Palace in Dresden or the Royal Castle in Warsaw). However, the solution which should...
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Theory of Urban Design
e-Learning CoursesThe aim of the course is to understand the complexity of the process of functioning and development of cities, including: -city hierarchical spatial models (morphology) and functional structure on models (the hierarchy of services and public spaces) -networks and systems that make up the city (environmental system, technical and social infrastructure) -role and importance of the district/neighbourhood in the structure of the...
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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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THE INFLUENCE OF THE URBAN DESIGN ON THE AIR EXCHANGE IN CITIES. SELECTED PROBLEMS IN POLISH REALITY
PublicationThe progress of the architecture and urbanism raises problems requiring interdisciplinary research conducted with the use of advanced experimental techniques and computer simulation. The fields of this research include aerodynamics, especially in intensively developed area of Environmental Wind Engineering (EWE). Aerodynamic phenomena occurring around buildings have a significant impact on the quality of the climate in the cities....
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Analyzing Wind Energy Potential Using Efficient Global Optimization: A Case Study for the City Gdańsk in Poland
PublicationWind energy (WE), which is one of the renewable energy (RE) sources for generating electricity, has been making a significant contribution to obtaining clean and green energy in recent years. Fitting an appropriate statistical distribution to the wind speed (WS) data is crucial in analyzing and estimating WE potential. Once the best suitable statistical distribution for WS data is determined, WE potential and potential yield could...
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Application of MCDA/MCDM methods for an integrated urban public transportation system – case study, city of Cracow
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Recommendations for Urban Freight Policy Development in Gdynia
PublicationThe purpose of this paper was to provide practical recommendations on how to develop Gdynia’s urban freight policy based on actual planning experience and characteristics of potential measures. Freight policy scheme was developed as a result of three interrelated factors: a) the general procedure of the urban freight planning, b) the city's current planning stage analysis and, c) characteristics of urban freight objectives and...
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Quality of Life Surveys as a Method of Obtaining Data for Sustainable City Development—Results of Empirical Research
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MORPHOLOGY OF BUILDING DEVELOPMENT AS AN ELEMENT OF URBAN VENTIALTION SYSTEM
PublicationProblems related to air quality in large urban agglomerations (e.g., high concentration of pollutants, the urban heat island phenomenon) make it necessary to take comprehensive measures to improve air exchange in urban areas.The article concerns the relationship between wind phenomena observable in cities and the geometrical features of building development. The knowledge on the subject is already well-founded and has been intensively...
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Using EO satellite data in Safe City and Coastal Zone web-GIS
PublicationThe paper presents a novel design of a web-based Safe City & Coastal Zone GIS (SCCZ-GIS) which integrates data acquired from different remote sensing and geospatial data sources for monitoring the security of the coastal zone, its inhabitants and Critical Infrastructure. The system utilizes several innovative technologies and directly co-operates with different remote sensing data sources and services, like a satellite ground station...
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City as a product. Architecture as an Economic Instrument. Are Global Cities People-Friendly Places?
PublicationWhile spending time in our everyday urban environment do we ever think how particular architecture influences the economic value of that space? Space has its measurable financial value. From the economic point of view a place can be treated as a product that fights for appearing in tourists’ and investors’ consciousnesses. Space - treated as an object of demand and supply - becomes an element in a marketing game. To reach its...
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The impact of hydrological research, municipal authorities, and residents on rainwater management in Gdańsk (Poland) in the process of adapting the city to climate change
PublicationAim of the study The city of Gdańsk faces changing climatic conditions that result in a higher frequency of extreme weather events. In response to the increasingly frequent appearance of flash floods, scientific research was carried out on changes in the probability of the occurrence of maximum daily precipitation in Gdańsk. The purpose of this paper is to show the role of hydrological research (science), decisions of local authorities...
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The resilient city in architectural engineering education: a joint design studio between Gdańsk and Chalmers universities of technology
PublicationChallenges to society, such as those posed by climate change require a new approach to the education of the engineer-architect. Contemporary solutions should serve future generations and that is why the idea of the resilient city should be discussed and implemented, both in theory and in practice. It is necessary to teach students to design urban structures in such a way that they are resilient to dynamically changing conditions....
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Research and Development at the Department of Energy and Industrial Apparatus of Gdansk University of Technology
PublicationIn the paper presented are the research and development activities at the Department of Energy and Industrial Apparatus of Gdansk University of Technology
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Instrumental measurement of odour nuisance in city agglomeration using electronic nose
PublicationThe paper describes an operation principle of odour nuisance monitoring network in a city agglomeration. Moreover, it presents the results of investigation on ambient air quality with respect to odour obtained during six-month period. The investigation was carried out using a network comprised of six prototypes of electronic nose and Nasal Ranger field olfactometers employed as a reference method. The monitoring network consisted...
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The impact of the Tri-City Ring Road on surface water of small endorheic wetlands
PublicationThe paper presents the results of the impact of the Tri-City Ring Road on small endorheic catchment basins. Particular attention was paid to pollution discharged from the road to the surface water, as well as changes in hydrological conditions in the vicinity of the road. In the study, surface water samples were analysed in terms of their electrolytic conductivity, pH and content of major minerals. GIS was also used to study transformation...
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From structures to landscapes – towards re-conceptualization of the urban condition
PublicationThis paper presents an original approach towards the phenomena of re-naturalization of cities and indicates its possible consequences for the urban design and planning strategies. It focuses on the ongoing shift “from structures to landscapes” in understanding urban conditions. While modern architecture introduced geomet-ric compositions against the background of nature, early modern theories of architects and sociologists started...
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GDANSK-ORUNIA AS A LIVING LAB FOR INNOVATION IN REVITALISATION
PublicationPoland is at the beginning of the revitalization process, which started in 2015, when the legal framework had been provided. The revitalization process, understood as an innovative change that is based on four equally important aspects – the social, the economic, the infrastructural and the ecological ones, has been facing an important barrier in Poland. After over two decades of constant modernization, public involvement in planning...
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New approach to urban housing - Report of ISOCARP Young Planning Professionals Workshop, Gdynia School of Urbanizm, Aesop Urban Summer School
PublicationThe workshop was organized along with the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LIVING IN THE CITY – PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF SHAPING HOUSING POLICY which is hosted by the City of Gdynia Poland. It was conducted in frame of Young Planning Professionals Program and 7th AESOP uropean Urban Summer School but also as the new type of the activity for the Young Planners “Gdynia School of...
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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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Development of cluster analysis methodology for identification of model rainfall hyetographs and its application at an urban precipitation field scale
PublicationDespite growing access to precipitation time series records at a high temporal scale, in hydrology, and particularly urban hydrology, engineers still design and model drainage systems using scenarios of rainfall temporal distributions predefined by means of model hyetographs. This creates the need for the availability of credible statistical methods for the development and verification of already locally applied model hyetographs....
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Gdynia - a New City of the Twenties and Thirties
PublicationArtykuł jest pierwszym przedstawieniem w zagranicznym, anglojęzycznym czasopiśmiennictwie dziejów budowy nowego miasta lat dwudziestych i trzydziestych XX w, jakim był Gdynia. Przedstawiona została geneza decyzji o budowie portu i miasta, pierwsze plany urbanistyczne w kontekście projektów portu, a także rozwój architektoniczny Gdyni. W szczególności zaś przedstawiono przemiany stylowe gdyńskiej architektury modernistycznej tego...
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City brand equity, a marketing perspective
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The market and the fair as a traditional activity of the city
PublicationThe modern commercial center with its impersonal form still on the squares and streets appear traditional markets and its annual versions – fairs, which similarly to the historical commerce - gather different activities of the inhabitants.
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City disstribution logistics as an environmental factor
PublicationPrzedstawiono związki pomiędzy systemami logistyki miejskiej i środowiskiem. Omówiono zadania administracji lokalnej w usprawnieniu dostaw oraz usuwaniu odpadów. Przeprowadzono wariantową analizę działań podejmowanych przez administratora obszaru miejskiego w celu poprawy jakości środowiska.
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A city and a wind farm. Landscape perspective
PublicationThe aim of the paper is to present the problems of the location of the wind farms in close neighbourhood to the historical cities, and the ways to minimize the potential landscape threats. The production of clean energy is obligatory in EU. In spite of how positive to the environment the wind energy production is, it may cause negative effects. The results of landscape studies of two towns in Poland prove that the location of such...
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A Case Study on the Desired Selectivity in Solid‐State Mechano‐ and Slow‐Chemistry, Melt, and Solution Methodologies
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Serce dzielnicy w stanie embrionalnego rozwoju - śrómieście reurbanizowanego wielkiego osiedla w polskim mieście metropolitalnym = Heart of the districts in embrional faze of development -city core structures for the large scale housing in Polish metropolitan city
PublicationW ostatnich 10 latach obserwowana jest intensyfikacja procesu uzupełniania zabudowy śródmieścia Gdańska. Jest to z jednej strony kontynuacja odbudowy historycznego centrum miasta, z drugiej zaś rewitalizacja dzielnic o przewadze zabudowy z początku wieku obejmująca śródmiejskie tereny powojskowe i poprzemysłowe m.in dawnej Stoczni Gdańskiej, koszaty we Wrzeszczu. Liczne komercyjne projekty prowadzą do istotnych dogęszczeń funcjami...
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Determination of vertical indicators of ground deformation in the Old and Main City of Gdansk area by applying unconventional method of robust estimation
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Theorey of Urbanism
e-Learning CoursesThis course provides an insight into the current urban design and planning issues takin into account main problem issues associated with contemporary urban development.
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Kamila Kokot-Kanikuła mgr
PeopleKamila Kokot-Kanikuła is a digital media senior librarian at Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) Library. She works in Digital Archive and Multimedia Creation Department and her main areas of interests include early printed books, digital libraries, Open Access and Open Science. In the Pomeranian Digital Library (PDL) Project she is responsible for creating annual digital plans, transferring files on digital platform, and promoting...
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Concept of 'Good Urban Governance' and Its Application in Sustainable Urban Planning
PublicationContemporary urban theory and practice in the post-industrial era is increasingly often turning towards an approach based on sustainable development. That concept bearing the traits of a paradigm has grown on the ground of broad quest for an alternative to the existing development model of the industrial civilisation. It has gained wide social acceptance and is the basis for many development and environmental programmes at the...
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Collective angst and collective action for progressive city policies: study3
Open Research DataPaweł Adamowicz, the liberal mayor of Gdańsk, died on January 14, 2019, after being stabbed by a man who rushed onstage during a charity event. Three studies were carried out to analyze the predictors of willingness to engage in collective action for the support of the progressive city policies he initiated. We conducted Study 3 to test the model with...
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An Algorithm for Optimizing the Determination of Cycling Routes on the Example of the Gdansk Agglomeration
PublicationPhysical activity is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. One of the manifestations of the change in a society type from consumer to information one is the understanding of the importance of ecology and a healthy lifestyle. This is evident, inter alia, in the inventiveness and involvement of the society in the start-up and solutions referred to as the Smart City. One example is the development of e-bike rental and local investments...
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Urban Prototyping in CAVE Cooperation Between the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk and the Gdansk University of Technology
PublicationThe paper describes results of cooperation between the Passive Architecture Laboratory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the Immersive 3D Visualization Lab at the Gdańsk University of Technology. The authors as the design supervisors (respectively for a team of architects and a team of IT specialists) present advantages and disadvantages of urban design with use of virtual reality.
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The two ring road complexes of Gdansk
PublicationThe urban structure of Gdańsk city centre is determined by two ring road complexes. The first of them, the Gdańsk Ring, has been designed by Hermann Josef Stübben as a result of a defortification at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. This new modern zone of the city centre was destroyed like the rest of Gdańsk in the end of World War Two and had not been reconstructed as a result of de-Germanization of the Recovered Territories....
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Konferencja HER CITY: Housing – Environment – Resilience
EventsZorganizowana przez Politechnikę Gdańską oraz amerykański Program SPURS DUSP MIT. Organizowane wydarzenie ma na celu podkreślenie znaczenia i roli planowania urbanistycznego w budowaniu wielowymiarowej demokracji.
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Collective angst and collective action for progressive city policies: study1
Open Research DataPaweł Adamowicz, the liberal mayor of Gdańsk, died on January 14, 2019, after being stabbed by a man who rushed onstage during a charity event. Three studies were carried out to analyze the predictors of willingness to engage in collective action for the support of the progressive city policies he initiated. In this study 1 (N = 214), the questionnaire,...
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RESHAPING THE GDANSK HARBOR –THE CONTINUOUS PROCESS
PublicationGdańsk is the harbour city with a history of more than 1000 years. For many centuries the harbour structures were evolving within the central part of the historic city centre, and – in result – a specific urban structures associated with these functions were created. But the evolution of the maritime technology as well as new needs regarding servicing the ships and cargo-handling activities effected in creation of the more modern...
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The environmental dimension of city dwellers’ quality of life and the city’s social and spatial variability
PublicationThe purpose of this paper is to attempt an analysis of the environmental dimension of the quality of life using quantitative surveys conducted among residents of Gdańsk. In the paper, we make reference to the theoretical assumptions ensuing from the concept of a comprehensive and integrated approach to the development of the urban environment, whilst noting the profound impact humans bring to their evaluation of the environmental...
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Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 2, January 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 2, from January 2021. The goal of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of “Compact city” and “Walkable city” ideas. The...
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Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 3, January 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 3, from January 2021. The goal of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of “Compact city” and “Walkable city” ideas. The...
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Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 7, January 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 7, from January 2021. The goal of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of “Compact city” and “Walkable city” ideas. The...
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Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 6, January 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 6, from January 2021. The goal of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of “Compact city” and “Walkable city” ideas. The...
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Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 5, January 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 5, from January 2021. The goal of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of “Compact city” and “Walkable city” ideas. The...
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Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 1, January 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 1, from January 2021. The goal of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of “Compact city” and “Walkable city” ideas. The...