This paper presents the development of the public space of Nowy Sącz, taking into account the space syntax analysis of the historical maps of the city and the structure of its development. Nowy Sącz is a city located in southern Poland, with over 80,000 residents. A space syntax analysis of historical maps helps to explain the urban space’s growth and development structure. The scientific goal of this paper was to build model solutions and urban typologies of Nowy Sącz; to present the logic of the model; and to compare simulation results with reality and historical knowledge. The application goal was to explain the processes and popularize the insight using clear space syntax visualizations. Axial maps of street networks were developed using current and historical city plans (publicly available plans from the late 18th century to the present day). The space syntax methodology was employed to measure Integration and Choice variables for each stage of the city’s spatial development. The results indicating areas of the highest Integration value were verified against historical studies. A strong correlation was demonstrated between the foci of urban life of super-local reach and their places in a growing city’s structural network.

Cultural heritage conservation is a constant process of preserving the valuable historical legacy and transferring it to future generations. The ability to adapt the matter under conservation to changing needs and environmental conditions is an essential element of this process. In this context, climate change and its consequences are a growing challenge, requiring innovative and often simultaneous efforts. This study was conducted in response to the discovery of previously unknown documents on nineteenth-century impoundment structures of the Krakow Fortress’s defensive system. At present, the facilities are almost entirely ruined, yet the need to restore and preserve the memory of their culturally valuable legacy merits investigation. The conditions and requirements of the management of Krakow’s changing hydrological environment became a vital component of this study. The uncovered archival documents were subjected to historical-interpretative analysis. Virtual modeling contributed to identifying the original scope of the dams’ impact. Analysis of the city’s spatial planning documents pointed to their contemporary potential. The entirety of the material collected aided in determining the framework in which protective measures targeting this dying heritage are currently possible. This study features a proposal for a new form of recreating the structures under investigation by assigning them a range of possible simultaneous uses. Thus, the presented research proposal is a form of concern for preserving this historical legacy and an attempt at rising to contemporary challenges posed by an intensively changing environment.

StreszczenieArtykuł poświęcony jest analizie systemu zieleni oraz wody w mieście, będącym na przełomie XIX i XX wieku nadgraniczną twierdzą. W kameralnej skali miasta, błękitno-zielona infrastruktura stanowi istotny element kompozycji, oraz czytelne powiązanie przestrzeni publicznych. Jest to zarazem czytelny przykład wykorzystania specyficznej lokalizacji i dostępnych zasobów naturalnych przez organizm miejski. AbstractThe article focuses on an analysis of the system of greenery and water of a city that was a frontier fortress at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the cameral scale of the city, the blue and green infrastructure constitutes an essential compositional element and a link between public spaces. It is also a legible example of the use of a specific location and accessible natural resources by an urban organism.Słowa kluczowe: woda w mieście, zieleń publiczna, zrównoważony rozwój

The paper describes the forgotten realization of the forgotten creator-Edgar Kováts, a Polish architect of Hungarian origin, operating at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Vienna, Zakopane and Lviv, the rector of the Lviv Polytechnic. The neo-baroque church in Mystków was the subject of research and inventory using a laser scanning as well as design work carried out by the author of this paper.