Rewitalizacja i jej wpływ na gospodarkę miasta – studium przypadków
Urban regeneration and its impact on the city economy – a case study

Author(s): Ewa M. Boryczka
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy, Rural and urban sociology, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: urban regeneration; post-industrial city; industrial city; economic base; city economy; economic transformation of cities; urban functions
Summary/Abstract: Polish experience to date in planning comprehensive functional and spatial transformations and urban regeneration of cities is already considerable, however due to the fact that those processes require large financial outlays and integrated activities in many spheres of city functioning, their implementation is slow. The process of systemic transformation caused great degradation of urban space, especially industrial space, and resulted in significant negative changes in the economic structure. Local authorities have at their disposal a wide range of instruments in the field of urban regeneration policy and can actively shape the urban regeneration process. Local authorities try to. The theory of the economic base, which is connected with the definition of the role of the so-called exogenous and endogenous factors of city development, is helpful in explaining functional and economic changes in cities. The main subject of this book is the urban regeneration processes in post-industrial cities and the resulting transformations in the economic structure and the economic base. The main objective of the monograph was to identify the impact of urban regeneration processes in post-industrial cities on the transformation of their economic base. The specific objectives were:• to identify the effects of urban regeneration activities,• to assess the range and scale of instruments used in the urban regeneration process• to capture the processes of transformation of the functional structure of cities during the transformation period • identification of the influence of the urban regeneration process on the transformation of the economic base of the city. The monograph consists of four chapters. The first chapter discusses the development and transformation of industrial cities, the issue of urban regeneration and its links with the urban economy. The chapter closes with a consideration of the links between urban regeneration processes and the transformation of the economic base of cities, and ways of measuring it. The next three chapters are case studies of selected cities. The chapters present empirically obtained characteristics of the examined cities (including characteristics of the socio-economic transformation process and urban regeneration needs, the urban regeneration policy and its effects, the planning process of the urban regeneration process, the implementation and the instruments used). The chapters present the changes in the economic structure of individual cities as a result of the urban regeneration process and the transformation of their economic base. In conclusion, an attempt is made to synthesise and evaluate the effectiveness of the urban regeneration processes in the economic transformation of the examined cities.

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