Miasto jako przestrzeń konfliktów
City as a space of conflicts

Author(s): Joanna Zuzanna Popławska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: urban conflicts; street trade; urban market; shopping mall; revitalization; civic participation; urban movements
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the text is to show which decisions of city authorities contribute to social discontent and protests, even conflicts, in the urban space, to clarify the sources of disputes and analyse their progress. The article consists of two parts. The first presents theoretical concepts explaining the source of urban conflicts. In the second, I discuss examples of social discontent, protests and conflicts that occurred in Białystok, Kielce and Warsaw. In the text I’m analysing three groups of cases, distinguished because of the factor, that initiated them. The first group of authorities' actions, causing social discontent, were attempts to eliminate street-trade and urban markets. The second group, was related to the revitalization of the city centers. As a third group, I discuss the efforts of municipal authorities and investors to build shopping malls in places where there was no social approval for it.

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