Compact housing structures located in city centers are considered to be the most energy and environmentally eective, mainly due to the access to services, transport networks and municipal infrastructures. There is the question of why so many of the acknowledged ecological housing complexes are located on the outskirts of cities or suburbs. Numerous cities decide to introduce strategies either to densify city centers, hoping to...

Zastosowanie dwóch efektywnych technologii budowlanych, tj. jet grouting i pipe roofing, przedstawiono na przykładzie realizacji budowlanych w obszarze aglomeracji miejskiej. Technika jet grouting znalazła bardzo interesujące zastosowanie przy wykonywaniu szczelnych przesłon przeciwfiltracyjnych, które znacząco ograniczają napływ wody gruntowej do wykopu i umożliwiają przez to swobodne prowadzenie prac fundamentowych. Przedstawiona...

As regional centres with metropolitan functions, metropolises grow and develop depending on how well they can meet the area’s transport needs internally and externally, a result of their socio-economic relations. The transport system of a metropolitan area must ensure that people and goods can move efficiently, effectively and environmentally friendly. Over the last ten years, the transport system of the Gdańsk–Gdynia–Sopot Metropolitan...

Making the metropolitan area resilient, in many cases, calls for amending its spatial structures. This may take various forms, including both reshaping the metropolitan core and redeveloping the entire regional network of cities and centres, making them part of a coherent structure. The latter strategy is associated with reinforcing secondary urban centres as well as shaping new connections between them. In this case, the term...