Rural public places: specificity and importance for the local community (case study of four villages)

Soszyński, Dawid; Sowińska-Świerkosz, Barbara; Kamiński, Jan; Trzaskowska, Ewa; Gawryluk, Adam

doi:10.1080/09654313.2021.1948974

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“…Thus, they distinguished between places deliberately created with new suburban residents in mind; public spaces created earlier, with the needs of the residents of these villages at the time in mind; and places acting as public spaces unintentionally. The sense of such a separation is confirmed by the works of other authors (Przesmycka & Sosnowska, 2014;Soszyński et al, 2022) indicating that rural areas feature few planned and consciously designed public places.…”

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“…The importance was determined by taking into account all the features that make up the vitality of a place. This method was described in detail in our previous publication (Soszyński et al, 2022). However, such an assessment based on interviews should not be treated as an absolute valorization of places, but as an attempt to identify public places that play the most important role.…”

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“…The last criterion is the least obvious. We abandoned the question of ownership or accessibility (Carmona, 2010;Bierwiaczonek et al, 2012), because our previous experience in Poland (Soszyński et al, 2018(Soszyński et al, & 2022 clearly showed that, in rural areas, more important than the official ownership and responsibility for the place is who actually takes care of the place and looks after it.…”

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“…M. Kowicki (2011) strongly emphasizes the value of such a bipolar settlement system with a real city and real countryside, regretting at the same time that we still do not appreciate the values of rural areas and are not able to protect them. Awareness of these differences and the specificity of rural public space emphasized by various authors (Niedźwiecka-Filipiak, 2006;Górka, 2012;2016;Szkaradkiewicz et al, 2014;Micek & Staszewska, 2019;Soszyński et al, 2022) suggests that, so too, the typology of rural public places (RPP) should differ from the one drawn up on the basis of urban or suburban areas.…”

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Typology of rural public places. On examples from Eastern Poland

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The paper proposes a typology of rural public places, actually functioning in the social life of villages, pointing out the distinctness of this system from the public space of cities or even suburban villages. The research was conducted using the method of interviews in 21 villages located in eastern Poland. A total of 124 interviews were conducted thanks to which 169 public places were identified and characterized. The result of analyses is a typology that includes 8 basic types of rural public places: Multifunctional village squares; Grocery surroundings; Other service facilities surroundings; Sacred sites; Village streets; Neighborhood space; Recreational places; Semi-natural places. Most of them are unintentionally created places. The research shows that multifunctional places - both central and typically recreational - are crucial for rural areas, while semi-natural places are the most characteristic. However, we did not find any basis for distinguishing a separate category including arranged greenery, representative places or club spaces. This is due to the specific character of the rural landscape, the small population, and the nature of relationships between residents.

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“…Therefore, over thousands of years, villagers have already formed a specific habit of recognizing and acquiring public services. According to previous studies, not only the rural areas in China, but also the rural areas in other parts of the world have this kind of phenomenon where the villagers do not obey the top-down principle designed for public facilities [29]. Restricted by the limited construction funds [30], the types and functions of public facilities in rural areas are not as varied as the ones in cities [31].…”

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Sustainability of Chinese Village Development in a New Perspective: Planning Principle of Rural Public Service Facilities Based on “Function-Space” Synergistic Mechanism

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Public service facilities are important carriers of sustainable rural development. However, the “holistic” planning principle for cities has resulted in the inefficient use of public service facilities in villages. Under the guidance of the sustainable development of rural areas in China, relying on the theory of “destination attractiveness” in tourism studies, this research puts forward the assumption that the real logic of the operation of rural facilities lies in the synergistic attraction between function and space for villagers. This study applied research methods such as field survey, questionnaire survey, importance–performance analysis, space syntax, and Spearman correlation analysis. It builds the “demand-frequency” coupling model of the facilities and explains the functional attractive attributes and degrees of four types of facilities in the coupling between different demands and use frequencies. Through analyzing the accessibility and traffic potential of rural facilities and the correlation between facility numbers and their spatial distribution characteristic parameters, the study reveals the synergistic mechanism between the functional and spatial attraction of the “selected facilities”. It is to clarify the planning principle of rural public service facilities based on villagers’ demands, to put forward the basic guarantee framework for different combinations of “functional attributes and spatial distribution” under the goal of good facility operation, and to achieve the goal of improving the resource efficiency and upgrading the level of the rural living environment. Eventually, it contributes to the sustainable development of rural China with theoretical and methodological support.

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Rural public places: specificity and importance for the local community (case study of four villages)

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Typology of rural public places. On examples from Eastern Poland

Typology of rural public places. On examples from Eastern Poland

Sustainability of Chinese Village Development in a New Perspective: Planning Principle of Rural Public Service Facilities Based on “Function-Space” Synergistic Mechanism

Everyday reality of children in rural Catalonia (Spain): experiences and emotions

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