Urban Theories of the Emergence, Development and Endurance of Commercial Streets

Guranowska-Gruszecka, Krystyna; Chudzińska, Agnieszka

doi:10.21005/pif.2020.41.c-01

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“…This particular problem is not exclusively Croatian, namely, it concerns many post-socialist countries, as evidence of disregard for urban planning and planners can also be found in for example Poland, as professional architectural or planning education is not required for assuming the "responsibility both on the scale of the entire city, as well as regarding individual regions of the city, including metropolitan downtowns." (Chudzinska, Guranowska-Gruszecka 2020). The projects are often realized with complete disregard for urban maps and guidelines, as there is no cooperation between different local offices required, and the permits are issued by the branch of the city government.…”

Section: Public Space In the Legislationmentioning

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Privatisation of Public Space – Case Study Zagreb, Croatia

Nevescanin,

Walczak

2023

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The article explores the topic of privatization of public space occurring in the process of contemporary urban planning policies, on the example of city of Zagreb in Croatia. The division between public and private in the European cities, particularly post-socialist cities, has historically been rather clear. However, with the change of socio-economic system, continuous development and adopting the contemporary planning practices such as public-private partnerships, the line between public and private is becoming blurred. The article analyses current practices and explores the possible risk for the city in case these practices prevail.

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Section: Public Space In the Legislationmentioning

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Privatisation of Public Space – Case Study Zagreb, Croatia

Nevescanin,

Walczak

2023

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“…The global challenges are dependence on neoliberal markets and global scale corporations, transnational climate change policies, e-commerce developments, risk of public space commercialization, general lifestyle patterns shaped by pop culture and social media, and even recent restrictions on retail shopping due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the locality-specific challenges are brick-and-mortar infrastructure, state and city legal frameworks, shopping habits, competition with nearby shopping malls, social and economic diversities, tourism, and historical heritage [1][2][3][4][5][6][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. The core question stated by Sustainability 2024, 16, 1577 2 of 16 recent research on high streets and their future has been on how to jointly envision and co-manage a long-term mission for each high street individually, regarding all the above, but focused mainly on urban sustainability [3,14], i.e., based on inherent social values, personal qualities of leaders, local history, and particular institutional culture.…”

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“…Accordingly, this study examines recent attempts to develop a lively but organized high street in Warsaw, Poland, where the initiatives had to be set up almost completely from scratch [13,16,28,29]. There has been a consensus among professionals, authorities, and residents that the downtown streets of Warsaw were in crisis and that the only way to revive them was to act strategically and cross-sectorally [13,15,16,18,[30][31][32]. Over the past two decades, significant amounts of leadership energy have been put into high street development and various operating modes have been discussed, including BIDs [16,28,33], yet relatively few concrete results have been achieved.…”

Section: Introduction: the High Street Sustainability Questionmentioning

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“Power to” for High Street Sustainable Development: Emerging Efforts in Warsaw, Poland

Filip

2024

Sustainability

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Global discussions on the future of high streets, especially today in times of epidemiological, political, and market turmoil, emphasize the importance of high streets as laboratories for urban walkability, resilience, and sustainability. The major condition, however, is a collaborative, cross-sectoral approach towards high street development. Such efforts have been recently undertaken in Warsaw, Poland, to develop a lively but organized shopping street almost from scratch—a few promising joint initiatives with this goal have been undertaken in Warsaw over the last two decades. Building upon a broad document review and in-depth interviews with sixteen pioneers (business consultants, public authority leaders, and planning experts) directly involved in the development of high streets in Warsaw, this study reconstructs and analyzes their efforts in urban collaboration through the lens of Urban Regime Theory. By discussing strengths and weaknesses of the regime structuring process, this paper points at critical difficulties in high street sustainable development (and consequently, also to overall urban walkability, resilience, and sustainability) which are the inertia of mutual perception by stakeholders, dependency on singular leaders and their personal motivation, the necessity to reinvent the very idea of a high street anew, lack of adequate legal tools for cross-sectoral collaboration, and the stiffening effect of previously set guidelines.

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Anti-Smog Building and Civil Engineering Structures

Stanaszek-Tomal

2021

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Currently, people worldwide, in the period from September to April, observe with their own eyes and feel the pollution of the air, called smog, in their own breath. The biggest cause of smog and the source of air pollution is burning rubbish in stoves. Other causes include exhaust fumes from large factories, burning coal in furnaces, and car exhaust fumes. Smog is an unnatural phenomenon, directly related to human activity. The weather is becoming worse. On no-wind, foggy days, the smog phenomenon is the most troublesome for city dwellers. Smog persists in European countries from November to April, during the heating season. The harmful effect of smog affects almost the entire human body. Every year, air pollution causes the death of approximately 26,000–48,000 people. At the same time, poor air quality reduces life expectancy by up to a year. The purpose of this article is to present buildings and finishing elements that can help in the fight against air pollution.

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Urban Theories of the Emergence, Development and Endurance of Commercial Streets

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Privatisation of Public Space – Case Study Zagreb, Croatia

Privatisation of Public Space – Case Study Zagreb, Croatia

“Power to” for High Street Sustainable Development: Emerging Efforts in Warsaw, Poland

Anti-Smog Building and Civil Engineering Structures

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