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The recording o f town historic structures has shown that Low Silesia has nearly 200 towns with a historically formed spatial arrangement that acquired a town status between 13th and 17th centuries. A historic character o f the towns finds its reflection also in preserved architectural monuments (mediaeval and baroque churches, town halls, defensive walls and others). Nearly 200 monuments o f architecture and building have been registered in Wroclaw itself, the capital o f Low Silesia. The author undertakes an analysis o f different solutions applied in modern town-building which have so often affected unfavourably historic urban arrangements. Until 1978 there have been drawn 88 draft plans of spatial deveopment o f Low Silesian historic towns or their districts. The a uthor discusses a reconstruction o f different towns carried out to the advantage o f a historic character o f towns as well as reconstructions that have brought about losses in this respect. One o f the main conservation problems is a technical aging of historic constructions which often inspires administrative authorities to demolish old buildings just as they find their repairing unremunerative. The author quotes costs o f adaptation repairs of various structures in the towns o f Low Silesia. Just recently the towns have been divided according to their historic value, a technical condition o f buildings and development requirements. The division has made it possible to specify the most important conservation tasks. Exact operations aimed at a complex programming of revalorization processes have already been undertaken.