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An analysis of contemporary conservation doctrines, compared to philosophical-civilizational tendencies, makes it possible to accept the thesis that the conservation work of tomorrow will be a function of the negative and positive experiences of our times. The spatial end, at the same time, the social structures, including the historical town, can be analysed on different levels of information. The statement presented here concerns only certain levels, selected from the point of view of conservation: ideological, economic, financial, and, predominantly, theoretical-methodological. The negative experiences include the ties between conservation and politics in a situation when the former was treated instrumentally as a pretext for achieving propaganda effects. The opposit of political and ideological motivation is cultural motivation in which the protection and conservation of monuments is treated as the protection of cultural heritage. This motivation attains a symbolic value as a protection of the continuum of the accomplishments of given societies, nations, or mankind, and as a sign of their identity. The formal right of ownership was of secondary significance. The command-distribution system which consists of state omnipotence in all domains of life, assumed a full state and state-administration management of objects, terrains and edifices. In this system, supported by budget subisidies, the position of the conservationist was rather comfortable as regards receiving suitable funds. But the soonsoring of a compaign for depopulating town centres, the change of homes into utility buildings, prestigious offices and seats of authorities and organizations, contradicted the essence of the protection and conservation of relics. They resulted in the elimination of authentic elements for the sake of changes enforced by construction norms adapted to new functions, and, consequently, produced an avalanche of growing costs, an altered spatial construction of the town and the destruction of traditional structures which are codecisive for the atmosphere and merits of a given settlement arrangement. It seems that the market system, reinstituted in our country, apart from certain perils of replacing the arrogance of the authority with that of money, offers also a real opportunity for the protection and conservation of urban buildings. In accordance with the law, it is precisely the owners (including private ones) who are obliged to care for the historical objects. An essential condition is the creation of economic-legal opportunities by means of a system of tax reductions, preferences, credits and subsidies intended for the conservation of historical monuments, which make it profitable for the owners to restore, conserve and protect them since they have become their property, either regained of purchased due to the privatization of state communical property. The conservation doctrine of the future as regards urban spatial arrangement appears to be the rather distinct outcome of an evolution defined by relations between the protection of cultural merits and town planning. This process in the last hundred years has progressed in several stages. Stage I includes the appearance in the last quarter of the nineteenth century of the very concept of urban architectural relics. The entire period of the protection of spatial arrangements, from World War I up to the 1970s, can be regarded as Stage II. The model of protection prepared at that time contained two currents: a / architectonic-town planning, b/ land-scape town planning. The first one, in accordance with the modernist tradition of the pre-war period, concerned basically only old city centres. The second current joined the protection of relics especially of architectonic-town planning ensembles, with the protection of the landscape. Stage III consists of the contem porary protection of the cultural environment. In the ecologically- oriented conservation doctrine the protected value comprise the natural and cultural landscape, including the historical relics, as an „iconosphere". The new doctrine was accepted also in Poland, where in the past decade it was sanctioned in the form of normative acts: „The Protection and Formation of the Environment" decree, 1980, „The Spatial Planning" decree (1984) and the „Protection of Cultural Monuments" ammended decree, 1990. Induibtably, the protection and conservation of spatial - landscape values is a task which will be realized upon the basis of the accomplishments of the revalorization method, i.e. as a permanent process which includes programming based on scientific research, planning and a gradual reai'zation within a scale of spatial arrangements and architectonic-landscape interiors.
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The problems connected with protection of architectural monuments dating from the second half of the 19th and the first half of
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