Participatory Revitalisation as the Determinant of Changes in Urban Policy Financing
Participatory Revitalisation as the Determinant of Changes in Urban Policy Financing

Summary/Abstract: The aim of revitalisation is permanent economic recovery of degraded areas. Revitalisation processes are of special nature, due to their complex character, combining different aspects of urban policy, as well as due to the unpredictability of time and finance determinants. It is this unpredictability which forces the need to secure long term funding for these processes. The article presents the problems of public participation in the revitalisation as conditioned by the need to ensure the safety of financing of this process in the long term, notonly from public sources, but mainly from private ones. The article points to the publicparticipation in the revitalisation as a challenge facing local government. Public participation is a condition for obtaining EU funds, but also legally regulated obligation of local authorities. Opening on a wide participation may lead to changes in exercising public powers and financing of urban policy. Research methods include primarily one of the main methods in legal sciences, i.e., themethod of construction (dogmatic). The study analysed the documents and acts adoptedat national and EU level, and selected literature. Moreover, the conclusions were based on the experience of the author in consultations of the revitalization program and the national and international projects and training.

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