Nowe przestrzenie publiczne na terenach poprzemysłowych śródmieścia Krakowa
New public spaces in post-industrial areas of downtown Krakow (Poland)

Summary/Abstract: The process of adapting old post-industrial areas to the needs and challenges of contemporary urban centres has a long tradition. Since the second half of the 20th century, the interest in transforming areas of former factories and industrial plants, absorbed by the growing urban fabric, has increased in many western cities. Places from which industry withdrew in order to relocate its activities to more convenient locations, were often falling into ruin or spent many years in a limbo, as a kind of „urban void” and inaccessible wasteland. Over time, during gentrification and revitalisation processes, interest gradually grew to finally revive such areas, while granting them a new functional and spatial identity. The aim of the article will be to present selected examples of transformations of post-industrial areas in Krakow, within or in a short distance from the downtown area, whose contemporary incarnations have become a valuable development of the existing system of urban public spaces. The history of selected areas, changes in their function and use in recent 20 years, as well as their situation in terms of strategy and town planning will be presented in detail, thus illustrating the role of the municipal government in the process of transformation of the locations studied.

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