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Numerous useful and essential motifs have been disclosed by the development of the social sciences in research concerned with the spatial structure of historical towns as well as their protection. A significant albeit apparently still insufficiently appreciated role has been played by the progress of social ecology — a young, interdisciplinary field of science, whose studies on the natural environment of human life, including urban space, make use of the assorted outcome of investigations pursued by geography, psychology and sociology. In Poland, the growth of the discipline in question and the results of its research have assumed particular importance at the beginning of the 1990s, the moment towns regained their sovereignty and self-government. Moreover, social ecology introduces a prominent although still ignored domain of scientific investigations into the interdisciplinary protection of historical towns and the global perception of the city. One of such trends is the social evaluation of municipal space, which deals with the identification of their cultural values from the viewpoint of local communities — inhabitants There are at least two reasons for the necessity of an identification of socially expressed cultural values. The process in question is becoming indispensable since we are witnessing worldwide growing social recognition of the values of the past as well as strong social identification with it; the second reason lies in the internally competing free market, which has become the scene of a selection of social values: “the winner is the one with less scruples” (G. Soros). Socially important values perish. The insufficient appreciation of social values and the tendency to heed exclusively financial values are the reasons why administration, so important in democratic societies, is becoming less efficient and outright weakens the democratic system. Economic conclusions demonstrate a marked need for protecting and reinforcing the cultural identity of people and places. Those tasks are to be served by an examination of socially expressed values, which must find a permanent place in the programme for the protection of the cultural values of historical town structures, inscribed into legally binding resolutions of spatial development plans and the self-government strategy of administering towns, conceived as their indispensable component.
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