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  • Student competitions as a socio-spatial tool for planning urban structures

    The aim of the article is to show the interdependencies between theory and practice based on the example of the student competitions at the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdańsk University of Technology. These competitions, on the one hand, broaden the spectrum of issues related to design and, on the other hand, contribute to the better recognition of problems related to tasks to be solved. Both the teaching and applicational aspects...

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  • Partycypacja społeczeństwa informacyjnego w kształtowaniu przestrzeni współczesnego miasta/ Participation of the information society in the modern city creation

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    Niesłabnąca popularność narzędzi służących do kreowania map świadczy o zainteresowaniu społeczeństwa informacyjnego przestrzenią współczesnego miasta i zmianami w niej zachodzącymi. W artykule zostaną omówione nowe możliwości jakie daje ten rodzaj partycypacji. Podkreślony zostanie fakt, iż oddolne inicjatywy digitalizowania przestrzeni nie powinny być ignorowane przez profesjonalistów, gdyż tworzy się nowa przestrzeń dyskusji...

  • The principles of arturbain.fr for teaching sustainable urban design

    The article is an attempt to show how important it is in the contemporary education of architecture students to use an ordered repertoire of principles and concepts of a universal nature, at the same time, pointing to the new directions of solutions and answers to the problems of the 21st century. This task is implemented by the French Association L'Arturbain dans les Territoires. It is accompanied by an idea consisting in observing...

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  • Carsharing - Opportunities and Threats for Cities: Proposals of Solutions for Urban Policy

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    The carsharing of a current generation is a short-term car renting service with a capability to find in the nearest surrounding a fleet car parked anywhere in the public space where the previous user left it, as well as to book, open, rent and pay of, with the use of a dedicated mobile application. Nowadays, only a minority of municipalities is considering implementing the carsharing in their policies. The lack of awareness of...

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  • Teaching infrastructure urbanism to aid participatory planning

    The teaching of urban planning at faculties of architecture entails constant tension, caused by issues related to the priorities among urban design (the form) and urban planning (the process). The authors note that knowledge of the relationship between urban design and infrastructure planning, particularly within the realm of public debate within the local community, is of key importance in educating young urban planners. Described...

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  • Distributed Architectures for Intensive Urban Computing: A Case Study on Smart Lighting for Sustainable Cities

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    - IEEE Access - Rok 2019

    New information and communication technologies have contributed to the development of the smart city concept. On a physical level, this paradigm is characterised by deploying a substantial number of different devices that can sense their surroundings and generate a large amount of data. The most typical case is image and video acquisition sensors. Recently, these types of sensors are found in abundance in urban spaces and are responsible...

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

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    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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  • Analysis of the regenerative braking process for the urban traffic conditions

    In a regular drive system, with an internal combustion engine, vehicle braking is connected with the unproductive dissipation of kinetic and potential energy accumulated in the mass of the vehicle into the environment. This energy can constitute up to 70% of the energy used to drive a vehicle under urban conditions. Its recovery and reuse is one of the basic advantages of hybrid and electric vehicles. Modern traffic management...

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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

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    - Ochrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego - Rok 2023

    This 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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  • Space and Landscape in a Global Context

    Kursy Online
    • R. Orlik
    • I. Mironowicz

    Module SPACE AND LANDSCAPE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (2022/2023, autumn semester) Objective The objective of the module is to debate different approaches to managing spatial development and contemporary issues in a global context. The course is founded on the students' knowledge about urban planning and instruments used to make them better places both for people and the environment.  Course proceedings Lectures and classes run online...

  • Architects and urban planners in the face of energy transition - smart cities energy aspects in shaping building structures and cities

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    Contemporary architects and urban planners are facing steadily increasing challenges. The growing problems around environmental issues, shrinking natural resources and climate action are just some of them. Currently, planning should also include balancing with all the aspects of sustainable development such as not only the environmental issues, but also social and economic ones. How to meet them in the era of energy transition...

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  • Critical perspectives on media architecture: is it still possible to design projects without negatively affecting urban nighttime environments and will the future remain dynamic, bright and multi-colored?

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    Nowadays, due to advances in electrical devices, new digital media, lighting, information and communication technologies, cities are being used 24/7. The paper discusses critical aspects of Media Architecture in the context of public spaces as well as urban nighttime environments from the perspective of a practising lighting architect. The author examines recent issues of negative design approaches and presents proposals for improving...

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  • Developing the Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure as a Tool for Urban Air Quality Management

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    Urban 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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  • MIEJSKIE PROJEKTY OŚWIETLENIOWE W KONTEKŚCIE REWITALIZACJI

    Urban Lighting in the Context of Regeneration Processes. The article presents how multi-layered urban lighting projects fi t into the programs of integrated activities to improve the living conditions of the local community, the surrounding space, and its economic relations. The role of the electric lighting in revealing the night image of the city, its promotion and public spaces transformations off ering new impressions to city...

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  • Market Regeneration in Line with Sustainable Urban Development

    This article presents the study of the optimal design solutions for regeneration of marketplaces. It examines the design variants for the revitalisation of the marketplace, in particular, investment in their modernisation in order to find the most optimal model for transforming these public spaces to have a significant impact on the city’s development. The research is a comparative analysis of the implementation of regeneration...

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

    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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  • The Impact of urban Localizations on the Growth Possibilities for Small Firms

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    - Rok 2014

    The purpose of this study was to identify the differences in the profiles of firms and their owners in urban and non-urban locations and also to asses the impact of those differences on the possibilities of growth for firms from both types of locations. Findings: urban entrepreneurs are better educated, more experienced and more positively motivated. Their firms are more innovative, with more qualified employeesadn better access...

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  • Acoustics - new services for urban planning, research and education

    The main purpose of the presented design is twofold, namely: providing detailed information about the noise threats that occur every day in city areas and preventing the noise induced hearing loss especially among young people. An experimental system designed for the continuous monitoring of the acoustic climate of urban areas was developed and implemented within the PLGrid Plus project. The assessment of environmental threats...

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  • 2022_Elective Design II_S_Hudnik_K_Zyczkowska_There is no Planet B

    Kursy Online
    • K. Życzkowska

    There is no Planet B The studio will use practical interventions to explore how climate change is affecting transformations in urban / non-urban space in Gdansk. Through the identification of problems and the importance of reading the consequences in space and architecture, students will learn about the method of opening a critical public debate. Through a variety of topics and actions – micro interventions, they will record their...

  • A city is not a tree: a multi-city study on street network and urban life

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    Christopher 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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  • Integrating environmental issues with the practice of urban planning

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    Environmental 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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  • Role of Sports Facilities in the Process of Revitalization of Brownfields

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    The paper gives an evidence that building a large sports facility can generate beneficial urban space transformation and a significant improvement in the dilapidated urban areas. On the basis of theoretical investigations and case studies it can be proved that sports facilities introduced to urban brownfields could be considered one of the best known large scale revitalization methods. Large urban spaces surrounding sport facilities...

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  • The Role of Greenery and Traffic Calming Measures in Planning of Road Infrastracture

    The role of greenery and traffi c calming measures in road infrastructure planning. The “life” of a town is connected with its infrastructure. So it is that, apart from serving their principal function, motorways, roads, airports and other facilities which make transport possible largely determine contemporary urban design. To achieve balanced forms of urban infrastructure that ensure comfort, safety and spatial order, it is necessary when...

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  • FACES OF MODERNISM - URBAN PLANNING OF SOCIAL HOUSING ESTATES IN GDANSK AND HAMBURG-ALTONA

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    - Rok 2016

    The paper aims to compare the modernistic social housing estates built during the interwar period in the Free City of Gdansk and in Altona, the small neighbour of Hamburg. The comparison is based on the analysis of the factors, which significantly affected the decisions regarding spatial transformations and the development of both cities in that time. These factors include primarily: poor living conditions, resulting from the explosive...

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  • Urban Railway within the Linear Urban Structure: the Case Study of Perm, Russia

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    - Rok 2015

    The 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,...

  • An application of blended and collaborative learning in spatial planning course

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    Spatial Planning is a master course for graduate students of Environmental Engineering. The course is based on assumptions that students’ future work will be connected with spatial planning, and spatial issues will have an influence on their everyday lives. To familiarize students with environmental issues in planning, the teams of students get an assignment to design an urban space, waterfront along a stream. The whole project...

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  • Shaping Place Identity through Interaction on the Example of the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk

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    - Rok 2017

    The article presents process of shaping place identity on the example of an important for Pomerania region investment - European Solidarity Centre. The realization of the European Solidarity Centre aims to be one of the essential elements of shaping Gdańsk’s identity of space. The article is an attempt to analyse how the presence of realization gradually affects the formation of the place identity of new urban space. Analysis...

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  • The Transformation Revealed Concept of Smart City Application in Urban Planning

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    - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Rok 2023

    The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of research conducted to reveal a smart city application concept in urban planning. The method is discussed in the context of case studies of smart city concepts in Malaysian states namely Johor, Penang and Selangor, with the efficient and effective state for implementation and application in urban planning being selected. The case study method was utilised to demonstrate the...

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  • Local Planning

    Kursy Online
    • M. Radziszewska
    • M. Arczyńska

    The aim of the course is to present the practical tools for local development. It integrates joint activities of various entities (local government units, private entities, residents) in order to transform a specific space as well as possible ways to procure urban or architectural project and funding.

  • Adapting new tools of urban freight management based on Gdynia’s dedicated delivery bays example – an analysis of the process

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    - Transportation Research Procedia - Rok 2018

    The article presents an analysis of a process which ultimately helped Gdynia to designate pilot delivery sites in its downtown area using international experience. A verification was conducted of policy transfer theory and its practical implementation based on an URBACT Freight Tails project. While the choice of the solution was based on critical analysis of existing practical examples, it needed to be adapted to the local conditions...

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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

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    The 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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  • User-oriented GIS tools in higher education of urban design and planning

    Geographic information systems (GIS) have emerged as indispensable tools for decision-making, planning and problem-solving tasks across various domains in today’s evolving world. However, there exists a pressing need to augment the utilisation of GIS tools in higher education of urban design and planning to foster a user-oriented approach. This article explores the imperative of integrating GIS tools more comprehensively into higher...

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  • Relevance of Urban Freight Transport Modelling Towards the Challenges of Urban Freight Policy

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    - Rok 2017

    The 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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  • Elżbieta Marczak dr inż. arch.

    Elżbieta  Marczak (dr inż. arch.) - adiunkt na Wydziale Architektury Politechniki Gdańskiej, zatrudniona Katedrze Architektury Miejskiej i Przestrzeni Nadwodnych (dawniej Katedra Architektury Morskiej i Przemysłowej, od roku 1997). Studia na Wydziale Architektury PG ukończyła w roku 1995. Stopień naukowy doktora uzyskała w 2006 r. przedstawiając pracę p.t. Architektura statków na tle rozwoju transportu morskiego. Jej badania naukowe...

  • Urban Vegetation in Air Quality Management: A Review and Policy Framework

    Recent episodes of high air pollution concentration levels in many Polish cities indicate the urgent need for policy change and for the integration of various aspects of urban development into a common platform for local air quality management. In this article, the focus was placed on the prospects of improving urban air quality through proper design and protection of vegetation systems within local spatial planning strategies....

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  • Light formed through urban morphology and different organism groups: First findings from a systematic review

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    The prevailing implementation and usage of contemporary lighting technologies and design practices in cities have created over-illuminated built environments. Recent studies indicate that exposure to electric lighting effects formed through spatial characteristics has visual, physiological, and behavioural effects on both humans and non-humans, such as wildlife. In order to gain a better understanding of the impact that electric...

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  • POLDER AND CITY: SUSTAINING WATER LANDSCAPES ON AN URBAN EDGE

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    - Rok 2016

    The question investigated in this paper is how to maintain the environmental quality of the polder landscape encompassing the city in the condition of urban pressure on this landscape. On the basis of theoretical approaches, historical surveys and introductory study models new ideas are tested on the case study of Gdansk, a city located in the Vistula River delta in northern Poland. Research shows that the city was created as a...

  • Health by Art: the Remedial Role of Artistic Installations in Public Space

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    Designing public spaces has become one of the most relevant issues in contemporary cities thanks to their integrating and inclusionary character. Public spaces are playing a far more important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle and encouraging us to do different activities. Therefore, contemporary public spaces should enhance creativity, stimulate physical activity and influence mental health. The methodology used in the research...

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  • Space and Landscape in a Global Context - 2023/24

    Kursy Online
    • R. Orlik
    • A. Wancław
    • I. Mironowicz

    Module SPACE AND LANDSCAPE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (2022/2023, autumn semester) Objective The objective of the module is to debate different approaches to managing spatial development and contemporary issues in a global context. The course is founded on the students' knowledge about urban planning and instruments used to make them better places both for people and the environment.  Course proceedings Lectures and classes run online...

  • Na granicy wody i lądu – pojęcie niebieskiej przestrzeni urbanistycznej

    Obecnie obserwuje się wzrost zainteresowania projektowaniem urbanistycznym i architektonicznym z wykorzystaniem wody lub wręcz projektowania nowych terenów miejskich na obszarach wodnych. Sposób postrzegania strefy graniczenia wody i lądu w mieście ulega transformacji, a związek między tymi dwoma tkankami – znacznemu zacieśnieniu, w skutek czego w ostatnim dziesięcioleciu zaczęło kształtować się pojęcie niebieskich przestrzeni miejskich....

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  • Teaching Architecture – contemporary challenges and threats in the complexity of built environment

    The complexity of the modern built environment is a problem n ot only of architectural and urban issues. This issue extends to many othe r disciplines as well as covering a wide range of social engagements. The idea of writing this pa per is generally initiated by the debate which took place in Gdańs k on 22.01.2016, and was prepar ed in order to meet representatives of the four circles of interest...

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  • Sources of investment risk in urban regeneration projects

    Publikacja

    - Czasopismo Techniczne - Rok 2014

    The scope of the article includes multidimensional risk analysis of urban regeneration projects, whose base is to identify areas of its occurrence. Authors thoroughly analyze the sources of potential threats and attempts to answer the question, what is their contribution into overall urban regeneration’ investment risk. The target concept will be used to assess the level of investment risk at the stage of initiation, preparation...

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  • Contemporary Development Processes of Cities and Urban Areas

    Publikacja

    The article deals with contemporary transformation of urban structures with special focus on Polish cities. The special attention is given to issues associated with re-urbanization and suburbanization of these within the framwork of principles of sustainable urban development

  • Recommendations for Urban Freight Policy Development in Gdynia

    The 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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  • The Impact of Decommissioning Cemeteries on the Urban Ecosystem

    The 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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  • Interrelations between Travel Patterns and Urban Spatial Structure of the Largest Russian Cities

    Publikacja
    • E. Saveleva

    - Rok 2020

    The study presented within this dissertation involves the analysis of the relationship between urban spatial structure and travel patterns in the largest Russian cities. It is an empirical investigation of how the spatial structure, formed during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, affects the travel patterns in the largest cities of contemporary Russia. It aims to determine what measures, both urban structure and transportation...

  • Sustainable urban planning in the context of studentification of the inner city areas

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2018

    The social dimension of urban planning as well as the importance of local communities and civic participation are often underlined in contemporary urban renewal and revitalisation programmes based on the principles of sustainable development. British Urban Renaissance is one the most far-reaching and widely discussed urban regeneration strategies which aims at repopulation and social diversification of inner city areas and land...

  • The potential of urban agriculture in the revitalisation of a metropolis

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2019

    In Poland, the topic addressing urban areas of agricultural production and gardening activity is still viewed in two main blocks: 1) a shift of the urbanized zone’s boundaries, causing dispersion of suburban buildings as well as creates conflict zone between the residential area and the production and post-production zones; 2) a socially contentious issue of restructuring the inner-city complexes of former employee allotments....

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  • Impact of AI-Based Tools and Urban Big Data Analytics on the Design and Planning of Cities

    Publikacja

    Wide access to large volumes of urban big data and artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools allow performing new analyses that were previously impossible due to the lack of data or their high aggregation. This paper aims to assess the possibilities of the use of urban big data analytics based on AI-related tools to support the design and planning of cities. To this end, the author introduces a conceptual framework to assess the...

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  • New trends in a development of the contemporary lighting forms within the urban environment

    Publikacja

    This paper presents selected issues on the design of urban lighting forms including street luminaires within the urban environment. The purpose of this paper is to show the evolution of urban lighting forms, in terms of their performance, character, and in the context of the progression of new lighting technologies. The authors discuss chosen aspects related to the development of lighting forms and the changing role of lighting...