Demolowanie w kontekście teorii rewitalizacji miast
Decay in the Context of Urban Renewal Theory

Author(s): Sylwia Kaczmarek, Jarosław Kazimierczak, Armina Kapusta, Piotr Kosmowski
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Sociology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: city management;urban planning;degraded city areas;city transformation;urban decay;city renewal
Summary/Abstract: The publication presents the results of research concerning urban decay and its connection with the process of urban renewal.The authors proposed an original theoretical concept which was verified during field research carried out in 2016-2017 in seven European cities. They agreed that decay – understood as a multidimensional form of transformation that changes the spatial structure of a city, its urban layout, buildings, economy, community, culture, art – has been present in cities since the beginning of their foundation, and that it appears periodically.Factors initiating this phenomenon can be caused by forces of nature, human activity or both these elements at the same time or in succession. Urban renewal is a sequence of planned actions taken to revive inefficient and degraded areas of a city. Decay can be a cause for urban renewal, its tool or effect.An innovative view of urban renewal including urban decay not only allows for the existing theory of this process to be modified, but it also enables its modern application in the practice of urban planning and city management.

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