1160 | 216 | The deconcentration policy in Central Europe: the evolution of national legal factors and local planning in the functional area of Wrocław (Poland) | Szmytkie Robert (1), Kryczka Piotr (1), Lisowska-Kierepka Agnieszka (1), Figlus Tomasz (2), Jurkowski Wojciech (1), Musiaka Łukasz (2), Sikorski Dominik (1), Spórna Tomasz (3), Sudra Paweł (4)
Despite growing research interest in deconcentration processes of functional urban areas in Europe, there is still a place for a long-term analysis of the legal influence on spatial development. Therefore, this study considers both the legal condition dedicating national powers and local planning prospects addressing the phenomenon of spatial deconcentration and its management since the turn of 19th and 20th centuries on the example of Wrocław, Poland._x000D_
We used an ex-post planning evaluation, historical resource review as well as retrospective analysis to develop the theoretical framework, which got divided in two stages. First, the drivers and barriers of deconcentration were identified in national regulations and local planning. Second, spatial effects were identified on the spatial development of the functional area of Wroclaw. Howard’s idea of garden cities opened the discussion of deconcentration processes in urban planning. Therefore, the urban planning and design competition of the Greater Wrocław development in 1921 delivered the idea of urbanization focused on satellite districts highly connected with the region and protected the environmental conditions. Subsequently, the post-war period in large cities in Poland delivered development heavily influenced by the central planning system in 1945-1989. After the resettlement and change in political affiliation of regions, the municipal development policy was implemented on the basis of statutory guidelines adopted at the national level. This policy disaggregated the city from regional development. Subsequently, the political and socio-economic transformation of the 1990s allowed the land development of cities shaped by a free market economy. The urbanization processes occur in the previously undeveloped areas and agricultural land. Finally, integrated territorial investments were adopted in 2014, what caused dispersion in the models of cooperation between the city and its functional zone.
Szmytkie Robert (1), Kryczka Piotr (1), Lisowska-Kierepka Agnieszka (1), Figlus Tomasz (2), Jurkowski Wojciech (1), Musiaka Łukasz (2), Sikorski Dominik (1), Spórna Tomasz (3), Sudra Paweł (4)
(1) University of Wrocław, (2) University of Lodz, (3) University of Silesia in Katowice, (4) Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Warsaw
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