Transformation of city centers of small and medium cities – historical and a new importance of historical urban space

Izabela Sobierajska, Małgorzata Ewa Sikorska

DOI: 10.21858/msr.28.02

Vol no: 28

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The purpose of this study is to present contemporary problems of development and functioning of historical, original urban centers in small and medium-sized cities in Mazovia. The analyzed cities were divided into historical, of locational and pre-locational origin, and new, 19th and 20th century cities.

Izabela Sobierajska, Małgorzata Ewa Sikorska; Przekształcenia centrów małych i średnich miast – dawne a nowe znaczenie historycznych przestrzeni miejskich w wybranych ośrodkach MazowszaPobierz

Gdynia – a city of the sea, dreams (and paradoxes)

Mieczysław Kochanowski, Danuta Kochanowska

DOI: 10.21858/msr.28.01

Vol no: 28

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The port and the city of Gdynia were built because this was the political and economic necessity of the Polish state reborn after World War I. The success of the construction was determined by the determination of the state and the enthusiasm of the citizens, and the construction of Gdynia is the beginning of Poland’s maritime tradition and its modern society. It is also an outstanding example of modernist architecture.

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New parks in old railway areas as a specific element of the landscapes of Berlin and Antwerp

Jakub Botwina

DOI: 10.21858/msr.27.09

Vol no: 27

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The article presents possibilities for recreational development of former freight railroad stations. Two sites located in central parts of cities are presented as examples: the Park am Gleisdreieck in Berlin and the Spoor Noord in Antwerp. Parks that have been developed on former railroad areas have already become part of the city landscape in a special way, preserving the genius loci they have become a place of recreation, as well as an excellent tourist attraction.

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The advisability of the construction of a motorway ring road around Warsaw

Tadeusz Wójcicki

DOI: 10.21858/msr.27.08

Vol no: 27

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Many large cities have road bypass systems, consisting of at least one outer ring road, most often implemented to highway standard. According to the current National Roads Construction Program (PBDK), the construction of an inner express bypass of Warsaw (EOW) should be completed by the end of 2025, after which the construction of an outer highway bypass with a route pre-determined in the Concept for Spatial Development of the Country (KPZK 2030) could proceed. However, many specialists are not convinced of the need to build such a highway bypass of Warsaw (AOW).

Tadeusz Wójcicki; Celowość budowy autostrady obwodowej wokół WarszawyPobierz

Vestiges of the past in old interiors – architecture of mazovian interiors from the second half of the 20th century

Anna Plewka

DOI: 10.21858/msr.27.07

Vol no: 27

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A special element in the surroundings are selected residential interiors and architectural remnants of the Mazovia area. They were developed in the second half of the 20th century, in the reality of communist times. The photographic reportage is more of an aesthetic impression than a realistic document, and is a series of explorations and reflections, a journey through selected residential buildings of the turn of the 19th/20th century, located in the Mazovia region. “Cycle of Photographs” is accompanied by a commentary pertaining to each home fire.

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Landscaping adaptation of the historical estate and park complex in Piekarty, Poland

Lidia Ozimkowska, Jerzy Wojtatowicz

DOI: 10.21858/msr.27.06

Vol no: 27

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The article is based on pre-project work carried out in the village of Piekarty, in the southwestern part of the Mazovia Province. The research area included a historic park with an access alley and a pond, as well as a small part of the extensive manor-park complex, which formerly consisted of agricultural land, a river valley with fish ponds, stables and other farm buildings.

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The preservation and landscape values of the waterside poplar shelterbelts of the Żerański Canal – a methodological case study

Beata Fortuna-Antoszkiewicz, Jan Łukaszkiewicz, Piotr Wiśniewski

DOI: 10.21858/msr.27.05

Vol no: 27

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The Zeran Canal (17.6 km long), built in the 1950s after the creation of Lake Zegrzynski, was part of a waterway already planned (1930s) to connect the Vistula with the Dnieper. The purpose of the canal was to serve the transportation of future industrial areas in the vicinity of the Zeran port, as well as to shorten the distance from the Bug River to the Warsaw section of the Vistula by about 41 km.

Beata Fortuna-Antoszkiewicz, Jan Łukaszkiewicz, Piotr Wiśniewski; Stan zachowania i walory krajobrazowe przywodnych zadrzewień topolowych Kanału Żerańskiego – metodologiczne studium przypadkuPobierz

A city of diversity: a study of the Warsaw district of Praga

Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak

DOI: 10.21858/msr.27.04

Vol no: 27

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Social diversity is an increasingly important issue in the global discourse on cities and regions today – a fashionable buzzword referring to the specificity of urban socio-economic structures. Heterogeneity that creates ‘cities with otherness’ accompanies such phenomena as international migration, spatial mobility, post-colonialism, population aging, the importance of the phenomenon of meritocracy, the occurrence and recognition of differentiation of individual and group identities, individualization as a feature of the so-called ‘liquid modernity’ described by Z. Bauman.

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Complex evaluation of the state of the environment in rural areas of Mazovian counties

Jan Cetner

DOI: 10.21858/msr.27.03

Vol no: 27

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The purpose of the article is to assess the state of the environment in the rural areas of the counties of the Mazovian Voivodeship, since the result of this assessment is very helpful in determining the directions of development and land use of individual counties and municipalities, as well as for individual investors, especially those interested in tourism, recreation and housing. In order to make such an assessment, 7 indicators were used: the overall burden of the environment by permanent residents, the preservation of the vegetation cover in a form close to natural, the diversity of land use forms, the area and nature of protected areas, the burden of municipal waste, the burden of domestic sewage, the state of atmospheric air.

Jan Cetner; Kompleksowa ocena stanu środowiska na terenach wiejskich powiatów województwa mazowieckiegoPobierz