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Revitalization of Public Spaces in Cittaslow Towns: Recent Urban Redevelopment in Central Europe
- Source :
- Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 5, Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 2564, p 2564 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021.
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Abstract
- Revitalization of cities varies depending on the scale of a city, type of challenges, and the socio-environmental context in each case. While revitalization projects carried out in globally known cities are well described, there is still a gap in characterizing revitalization processes that aim to improve quality of life in smaller units like medium-sized towns. This paper fills this gap by the insight from 82 revitalization projects implemented in 14 towns of Warmia and Mazury region (Poland) which are associated in the Cittaslow movement. The study combines a quantitative assessment of statistical data describing these projects with their qualitative evaluation based on interviews with local experts. The results of conducted analyses show that socio-economic development plays a major role as, despite projects which directly refer to the social domain, social elements were found also in projects initially categorized as those targeted to architectural and spatial domains. On the other hand, the authors observed that environmental and ecological as well as cultural issues are treated unevenly or marginally in projects compared to social ones. Interviews with experts show that the least importance was assigned to cultural and historical domain. The obtained results might constitute important knowledge to understand the background of current revitalization processes outside of global metropolises to improve future mechanisms supporting urban renewal.
- Subjects :
- revitalization
Geography, Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
TJ807-830
Urban regeneration
Cultural issues
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
Regional science
Quantitative assessment
public spaces
GE1-350
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
021107 urban & regional planning
Building and Construction
Environmental sciences
liveability
Geography
quality of life
Scale (social sciences)
Social domain
Cittaslow
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....374c069e6a17d388a834b6511272e3aa
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052564