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Compact City na Żernikach = Compact City in Żerniki
PublicationThe paper explores the impact of the new neighbourhood built within the framework of the European Capital of Culture 2016 in Wrocław on the future development of the city.
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The Brain of the city
PublicationIn order to highlight the characteristics of the West End of Wrocław, we conducted a site analysis. Using the strengths of the site, we were able to create a unique concept of the district while minimizing the impacts of weaknesses by design. The purpose of redesigning the West End of Wrocław is to attract new people to the district through the transformation of an identity. Initially, we conducted a SWOT analysis to identify the...
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Challenge for the sustainable city - is the Garden City idea still relevant?
PublicationTekst ma na celu porównanie europejskiej architektury mieszkaniowej powsta-łej w okresie ostatnich stu lat po obu stronach Żelaznej Kurtyny oraz przy-wołanie historycznych zasad jej kształtowania. Rozważa współczesne tenden- cje i poglądy nt. zrównoważonego projektowania miasta oraz zachęca do ref-leksji nad aktualnością idei Miasta-Ogrodu.
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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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Gdańsk and the Young City
PublicationArtykuł dotyczy problematyki kształtowania obszaru Młodego Miasta w Gdańsku. Omówiono w nim skrótowo historię rozwoju obszaru, koncepcje projektowe ostatnich lat, jak i współczesne jego przeobrażenia.
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Journal of Regional and City Planning
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Secuencia (Mexico City, Mexico)
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ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LUBLIN CITY BIKE STATIONS VERSUS THE ECONOMIC AND SPATIAL CONDITIONS IN THAT CITY
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Smart Cities Concept - Readiness of City Halls as a Measure of Reaching a Smart City Perception
PublicationThe article presents a proposal for a new approach to the assessment of Smart Cities: testing the readiness of city halls to a Smart City. The approach is the result of two-year studies involving ten major city halls. Readiness is compared with the previously used Smart City assessment methods: rankings or ISO standards. The relationship between readiness and organization maturity was also presented. The key role of city halls...
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The Digital Birth of an African City
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Energy roadmaps for the city of Gdańsk
PublicationThe paper presents energy roadmaps for Gdansk in three time perspectives: short-term (the year 2012), medium-term (2020) and long-term (2050). The paper is a result of the research carried out under the PATH-TO-RES project, supported by European Commission programme SAVE Altener Intelligent Energy Europe.
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Smart city - miasto oszczędne
PublicationPublikacja prezentuje koncepcję smart city oraz smart growth.
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Gdańsk: a City of Solidarity and Freedom
PublicationOnly a few cities can claim that they have changed Europe and indeed the World. Gdańsk is privileged to be one of them. It is not a “caprice of history” that the Solidarity movement which, in the end, got the iron curtain torn, was born in this particular place. It is a logical consequence of ten centuries of the collective wisdom of the people that built Gdańsk and the region of Pomerania. The tragic assassination of the Mayor...
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City and Urbanity in the Social Discourse
PublicationThe aim of our article is an attempt to present the concept of urbanity that has been shaped throughout centuries along with the development of European civilisation and now entered a new phase of social production of space based on cultural dimensions. The future of the majority of World’s population is connected currently with the urban life with the assumption that qualitative characteristics of life in the 21st century define...
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The Hanseatic City Challenge
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Protection and renovation of public areas in a modernist city: the case of three streets in the historic City Centre of Gdynia
PublicationThis article concerns issues related to the preservation and restoration of public space in Gdynia’s city centre, which was designed and built mainly in the 1920s and 1930s. In 2007, a major part of the city centre was entered into the register of monuments asa historic complex of urban architecture. Moreover, in 2015, the area was declared a Monument of History. Protection of a complex of urban architecture covers not only the...
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The role of sport in the Smart City concept
PublicationSport brings to cities innovative solutions that influence urban life, yet considerations about sport still rarely contribute to the development of the very popular smart city concept. This raises the question: what is the perception of sport in the city from the perspective of the smart city concept? One of the challenges of future urban policy is to provide initiatives that ensure the wellbeing and promote the model of a healthy...
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City brand equity, a marketing perspective
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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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Searching for new development in areas of the city
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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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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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Jacek Krenz : City in my eyes
PublicationSketch City: Tips and Inspiration for Drawing on Location is the companion for any creative traveler, urban explorer, or budding artist. 50 artists scattered around the globe have been brought together to share tips about their favorite urban settings, including locations in South America, Europe, Canada, Asia, and beyond. Citified sketchers are guiding through techniques for capturing frenetic street scenes as well as the rare...
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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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Gdynia City Centre as a Historical Monument
PublicationThe articel presents the experience connected with the legal protection and conservation of modern monuments built before WWII in Gdynia City Center
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Od garden city do ecocity
PublicationArtykuł omawia wybrane wątki ewolucji aspektów środowiskowych miasta w okresie od Garden City do czasów obecnych, omawiając narodziny, rozwój i ideę współczesnego miasta. Rozważania obejmują kolejno genezę i istotę miasta-ogrodu, jednostki sąsiedzkiej, modernizmu, postmodernizmu, nowego urbanizmu, oraz analizę współczesnych idei naprawy miast, zawartych w rozmaitych dokumentach, systemach certyfikacji, pozycjach literaturowych,...
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Entrepreneurship nests in a polish edge city
PublicationThe last two decades in Poland have been a period of both a dynamic development of the small and medium-sized enterprise sector and a transformation of the city surrounding territories. This development began during the economy transformation after 1989. Population migration and movement of economic entities away from central cities resulted in development of territorial structures within some Polish suburban areas, defined as...
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Towards a Smart Sustainable City Roadmap
PublicationThis workshop of the CAP4CITY (Erasmus+ Strengthening Governance Capacity for Smart Sustainable Cities) project is to promote and stimulate the discussion and networking in the area of Digital Government. Smart Sustainable Cities and related concepts of Digital, Intelligent and Smart Cities represent a progression of how cities around the world apply digital technology to serve their populations, pursue sustainable socio-economic...
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Architectural Symbols of a City – Case Study
PublicationThe identity of a city is understood as a collection of individual features, which give the city its individual character and distinguish it from other places; it undoubtedly constitutes a cultural value, which should be cherished. In the case of Sopot – a spa located on the Bay of Gdansk, the mosaic of its geographical location, landscape values, urban layout and historic architecture has created a unique image of a seaside resort....
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Small city and a bridge. Landscape perspective
PublicationThe aim of the paper is to present the problems connected with the location of big infrastructure objects; like bridges; in close neighbourhood to the small cities located in valuable environment and landscape; and the ways to minimize the potential threats. The case study of the small town Wyszogrod in central Poland will be presented to illustrate the values of the environment and landscape; which could have been easily destroyed...
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Night in a big city. Light festivals as a creative medium used at night and their impact on the authority, significance and prestige of a city
PublicationCities in times of global urbanization, are looking for completely new marketing methods, one such tool is the creative use of artificial light after dark, in the form of light festivals. This paper aims to introduce the historical development of the phenomenon and contemporary as well as contemporary illuminations / projects of illuminations of Fete des Lumieres festival in Lyon, Luminale in Frankfurt or on a smaller scale Lights...
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The Impact of Migrations on the Spatial Characteristics of the City of Gdańsk
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The Use of Geodata in the Process of the Ventilation of the City of Krakow
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THE IMPACT OF STANDARDISATION METHOD ON SMART CITY RANKING
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Gangs in the Global City: Alternatives to Traditional Criminology
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New master plan for the Young City in Gdańsk.
PublicationArtykuł zawiera omówienie nowego dokumentu planistycznego dla obszaru Młodego Miasta w Gdańsku, obejmującego całość terenów postoczniowych i przylegających poprzemysłowych. Zawarto w nim zarówno wytyczne dotyczące kompozycji urbanistycznej Młodego Miasta jak i jego przyszłego funkcjonowania.
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Reconstructing the Historic Stratum of the City - the Polish Experience
PublicationW pracy zawarto omówienie polskich doświadczeń związanych z odbudową zniszczonych w trakcie ostatniej wojny obszarów śródmiejskich oraz związanym z tym zagadnieniem problemem odnowy krajobrazu historycznego oraz jego rekonstrukcji.
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DETERMINATION OF THE CITY CENTRE. STUDY FOR THE TROJMIASTO AGGLOMERATION
PublicationDetermination of the centre of the city or agglomeration or generally the geographic area is a task which is often undertaken as part of the promotional actions realized by local authorities or directly by inhabitants. Nowadays, especially due to the development and availability of positioning technology and satellite imaging, this job is undertaken within the framework of general didactic tasks and group projects during the study...
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Trolleybuses in the city of Gdynia. A historical and geographical study
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono historię, stan obecny oraz plany rozwoju gdyńskiej sieci trolejbusowej
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Yacht harbour as a part of city public space
PublicationTransformation of harbors opens opportunities to introduce new functions into city centers. Very often abandoned ports’ infrastructure is adopted into a yacht harbor. The article elaborates typology of yacht harbors and theirs’ potential which can be used in creation of city center. Thesis are illustrated by examples of Port Vell, Barcelona, Spain and Sundby Harbour, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Participation - engaging the citizens in city renewal processes
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Sopot - is it possible to retain the unique image of the city?
PublicationSopot is the best-known seaside resort in Poland. The city is unique with regard not only to its location and natural values, but also its interesting architecture, which dates back to the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The relic of that era is the largest in the country number of buildings characteristic for the Northern European seaside resorts. The architecture of historic Sopot is dominated by eclectic...