Modernization of a Historical Object in the Contest of Contemporary Requirements of Urban Space in the City of Częstochowa

Abstract:

The article covers the problems of the shaping of the environment as well as living conditions in urban areas. Social needs, which are changing in time, make it necessary to adapt urban development to contemporary functional requirements. Such actions are particularly difficult in downtown areas where the interference concerns well located and preserved architectural and urban complexes. Directing attention to the areas of strict center of Czestochowa is not accidental. It is a city of importance to Polish history. It also belongs to the culture-creating sites for the nation. From so well preserved urban complexes there are required solutions arising from the uniqueness of the place and the role it fulfills – in this case: the city of pilgrimage, an academic center and a tourist destination. The search for strategy and tactics of quality raising of the downtown areas should cover both the urban context and historical and contemporary background of the city. The paper presents examples of attempts to acquire urban space in reference to the main urban assumption of the city of Czestochowa.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1020)
• Pages: 698-701
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1020.698
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Nina Sołkiewicz-Kos
• Keywords: Architecture, Design, Modernization, Public space, Urban Planning, Urbanism

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