The Upper-Silesian Agglomeration is the largest urban complex in Poland. Since 1945 successive spatial development plans have been developed for it, in which many conceptions have been proposed to solve various issues pertaining to regional planning. Some of them have been implemented, some have been suspended and others – abandoned. The article presents several of the conceptions and projects, which – difficult as they were to implement at the time of their creation – after many years have become attractive again in the current socioeconomic situation and considered feasible to realize.
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Aglomeracja górnośląska jest największym zespołem miejskim w Polsce. Od 1945 roku opracowywano dla niej kolejne plany zagospodarowania przestrzennego, w których przedstawiono wiele konceptów rozwiązania różnych zagadnień planistycznych. Niektóre z nich zostały zrealizowane, inne zawieszone, a jeszcze inne zaniechane. W artykule przedstawiono kilka konceptów i projektów, które były trudne do zrealizowania w momencie ich powstania, ale po upływie wielu lat znowu stają się aktualne i podejmuje się dyskusje o ich realizacji.
Several years after accepting The Revitalization Program for Zablocie District in Cracow its process and effects can be analised. The following are the refl ections of one of the authors of the program and the author of the solution design for program’s key project: Lipowa Avenue. One of the important purposes of both: the program and the plan was integration of parts of district that were structurally and functionally varied and physically divided by railway track. Lipowa Avenue is thought to be a public space able to gather split parts and to link the isolated areas. So far during the realization of the program no effi cient action has been undertaken for the realization of the key project. The studial conception of Lipowa Avenue demonstrates that only realization of key project enables integration of Zablocie District. The result of the studial conception is a voice in the discussion and the answer for the questions: what should Lipowa Avenue become and what should it be like.
Revitalization and urban renewal course was established at Faculty of Architecture in Politechnika Śląska (Silesian University of Technology) as a new course in academic year 2008-2009. Previously problems of that matter were presented fragmentally within the courses of Urban Design and Planning, Architectural Design, Monument Preservation and Urban Renewal. That situation resulted in specifi c misunderstanding. Students understood revitalization mainly as a spatial reconstruction or renewal of urban or architectural degradated objects. In that sense the main goal seemed to be gained by pure spatial act. New course is intended to show revitalization as interdisciplinary, long-term process. Operational aspects of executing this process are strongly stressed in the program of new course. The main didactic objective is to provide necessary knowledge and improve students ability and skills of urban space diagnosing, formulating aims, tasks and actions programming. One of those actions is renewal of urban space elements, treated as a tool of urban revitalization process.
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