It doesn't matter.
So please our foreign guests to put your headphones right now,
because from now on this session will be run in Polish vitam points
for Burdo Serdechne and as I see, like Theresa present.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the session within which we'll
present the achievements of our town planners, town planners
from Dinsk and we will share our experience.
It's my pleasure to be moderating this session and the main speakers
will be my female and female colleagues from Science Development
Agency.
The session is entitled Nice experience in planning and implementing
City Transformations and the first presentation on science
revalatization programmes will be delivered by Director of
Science Development Agency.
So a lot has already been said about revitalization processes,
renewal about histories which we could share with you, stories
we could share with you now.
We are in the process now and that's the process that has been
going on since two thousand and fourteen We've been talking
about various regulations documents, Poland, we base on government
documents, We are talking about legal acts which are very often
amended by various policies and policing their skills up to
the Guys Development Agency.
So today I have the pleasure of presenting to you a fraction of
what we are dealing with.
We have a team of young creative specialists.
Now I'm moving on to the utilization program, ladies and gentlemen.
From legislative point of view, we know what the renewal process
is all about.
It's a process that takes place over a number of years.
It's this is the time when the city along with its partners attempts
to improve the quality of space, also improve the quality of
of living support city dwellers.
Because let me remind you that according to the rules, there
are various areas revitalization covers, areas which have
often been degraded.
They are dysfunctional.
There is a combination of negative, negative phenomena there,
and our activities, which we've been conducting for nearly
a decade, concentrate on social processes in order to improve
the quality of life of our of our city dwellers.
And of course, in parallel, we have investments that deal with
fixed infrastructure.
Well, let me start from two thousand fourteen We started there
with the local revitalization program.
This was about two hundred hectares that were covered The next
phase of utilization, because this revitalization did not
end after a few years only this process is going on.
Another document was created municipal revitalization in
document two thousand seventeen In that time, the area which
was covered by revitalization included about five hundred
hectares and the last changed in twenty twenty three in September
when we increased this area by the district of Aruna does thirty
one hundred hectares.
That is right now the city of Dice is conducting revitalization
process in the area.
Of those six hundred hectares that are marked in green works
are being conducted and updating their utilization program
Because we're monitoring what's happening in in given areas,
we're looking at what can be amended, improved to what can be
adapted to new realities.
We also ask inhabitants about further steps.
What can be done, What are the processes We have started a few
years back are effective and we are now, after a number of meetings
like that, after a cycle of participation where we participated
in consultation points, where we walked along with our city
dwellers to find out about their needs, their various workshops
and we're also using new IT tools to do that.
There were surveys prepared by our teams and ahead of us we have
new workshops which are organized in school and now we are finalizing
documents preparing them to officially introduce it and approve
it.
That this we're going through the formalities of participation
process.
Some statistics in these four areas that are under utilization.
The city has spent about two hundred million about eighty million
is EU subsidies We have about one hundred residential cops that
are participating This is quite a bit of engagement from local
communities.
We also call social partners who help us to activate inhabitants
from various areas.
The area lower city, the Wawa Square and the old suburb we are
under After two phases of the process.
We're in the third stage now because in this area as part of the
public private partnership, we have a private investor who
has stepped in, the private investor as part of the contract
that was signed with the investor.
The investor is obligated to fill in the social infrastructure
to complete it through additional investments.
I'll show you one of these investments that has been concluded
recently.
And of course the investor expects the possibility of profit.
So the city sold the land as part of the agreement.
City land was sold on which the investor can carry out developer
projects, residential services, open projects.
Many of the elements you're going to look at, you're going to
see on the pictures.
These are investments which have been carried out by the city
in recent years.
The process this price takes a long time.
These are the effects, the final effects of the process.
It's not always easy to reach such final effect.
Various problems are encountered, as always, when we deal with
large investments, especially with in areas which are historical
value, which are under under the protection of the historical
works conservator.
Of course there are conflicts, internal conflicts with residents,
with neighborhoods which are solved as we go.
These areas change, their quality changes.
This is also portrayed in various surveys among residents.
We can see that the quality of urban issues improving.
The residents are noticing that the place is becoming more attractive.
That's a better place to live in.
It's becoming more popular.
This is another area that's covered by aeropolization.
Urunia District here.
We've decided that our guidelines were that the city realizes
social function to activate local community carries works
in various local areas.
We also identify these places with another policy and also elements
connective infrastructure.
Further steps are complementary.
We see it in that cycle of several years.
We can see how these areas are changing, how private investors
are making use of these elements of the city has changed.
They're selling their investments with such information that,
you know, in the neighbourhood there is a very attractive public
space.
So this process is happening.
New residents are appearing.
These are other investments carried out in the Arunya sub district,
The third old helm, Biscopia Mountain, Biscopia Hill.
Three areas actually located quite close to the place where
we are in today.
So there's even a chance if you want to, to take a short walk, fifteen
twenty minute walk and you can take a take a look at your own eyes
The effects of our work.
So as I was saying, Viscopia gurka start at home, a very attractive
place.
All these areas are covered by historical conservative protection.
And as I've said before in all of those, we've searched for areas
which would be attractive for local communities, places of
meetings and we filled in road infrastructure or infrastructure
connected to with technical needs.
So these processes are going on successfully step by step.
We are finishing up certain elements and we're also thinking
on how to supplement this entire satisfaction and and
further investments stages.
Another example where the city city is planning to carry out
public pride partnership, this is the Nova port area where the
Visausha fortress very attractive district.
We want to get a private partner here as well.
So that's in the lower city to come in with investments.
They have investments accompanying our projects, for example,
a pool, swimming pool for local community or green spaces and
summing up very important information as well this virtualization
process, we have been able to activate local community within
the process.
I think it's quite successful because this guarantees that
process is going to continue.
These transformations which were started by by the city are
going to be continued.
And in a in a few years, a decade or so, these areas will be even
more attractive.
They will change and they will be modified for the better.
And I think for local communities, this is also very important
impulse that the structure of the city is changing for the better,
that new residents are coming in and the districts are becoming
attractive places for living.
As I've said before, it's a pricey pluses taking process which
requires engagement of many units is always a challenge when
we prepare such projects, projects which require coordination
with various programs with various ways of financing.
This is difficult nevertheless, so we are facing facing it every day.
And as I've said before, one of the investments which was carried
out as part of the Public Right partnership and by a private investor
is the is a school stadium or athletic field which located
around Mottuava River annualization of the investment processes
connected with modernization of road infrastructure.
This is what the investor, the private investor actually responsible
for the process continuing.
We do hope that it's going to be successful and next stage is another
part here.
We haven't had a partner identified yet.
Negotiates negotiations are continuing with various sorts
of consortiums.
We do hope that we will sign an agreement soon and this area will
find investors, strategic investor who will fill in the existing
infrastructure of the investments.
A few pieces of information on the document we are working on
because I do hope that in the audience we also have residents
of guys who will be who will come active in the participation
process.
We do hope that at the turn of December and January, the document
will be made available for public viewing.
Everyone will be able to acquain themselves with it and come
up with conclusions regarding the locations I've mentioned.
So that's all for me.
Thank you very much.
Just a brief presentation.
I really encourage you to take a look at our Internet page.
There's more data there, data dealing with the entire utilization
process.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Madam Director.
That was a very interesting and comprehensive overview of what
we've been doing.
Now we are moving on to a more local level that's local spaces
will be presented by Anna Ficos Voischik of VOIS.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
I can see that some sunglasses would be really useful here.
It is my pleasure to be able to present a project on which with
dance development agents who have been cooperating ever since
twenty sixteen dance local spaces I'm going to briefly tell
you about the objective of the project, about the criteria will
present local spaces networking.
Thanks.
And I will tell you about a method of data collection and cooperating
with the local inhabitants and implementation and then relation
of activities and coordination of them.
The goal is to locating network local spaces and guys, but also
to coordinate measures and activities in those spaces within
the operational program public space.
Sometimes these are neglected spaces, the spaces that appeared
in the various periods in the city history, sometimes some of
them in modernist times, for example, they are scattered across
different districts.
Sometimes they are not adequate to the present day demand, so
our task is to regain these areas and make them meet all the demands
that local inhabitants are dreaming of now, so that it be the
first go now.
In terms of the coordination, there are a number of entities
that have an influence on the shape of public spaces.
Hopefully this project will streamline the process is undertaken
by these entities.
But to begin with, how do we define the local space?
Well, certainly some of you know the definition, but for the
sake of this project we've created a very basic definition.
It is a multifunctional, diverse, publicly available space
for for local communities, building territorial community
and identity.
To begin with, we defined five criteria that helped us to decide
whether a given space was a local space or not.
So first and foremost, there have to be inhabitants there.
Secondly, there has to be walkable access to it, so it has to be
within a ten to fifteen minute walking distance and there should
be services provided there, very basic services for the inhabitants.
four it should be connected to recreational areas and five it
should have local potential related to the identity of the very
space.
For now we've we have eleven one hundred and eleven such locations
and it is not a collection that is closed There will be new locations
added to this map as the city continues to develop.
But as mentioned by Madam Director here, we've been running
local revitalization program and the nice local spaces were
a very important input in the first phase in terms of space and
function as the areas to be revitalized.
We wanted to have a clear idea of the network of brownfields and
to be revitalized that would be closely related to this local
identity.
Of the places in the third stage, we paid attention to the remaining
areas where we have local spaces.
We have sixteen local spaces and the inner city in the first eleven
such spaces and we progressed throughout all the urban administrative
areas of the city.
So all together we've got fifty six elaborations on grants local
spaces.
Now I'm going to move on to data collection.
This is the basis of our work.
We want to have full knowledge about a particular space and its
inhabitants.
We do that traditionally.
So for example, we just go there, a traditional town planners
toolkit, but we also carry out Internet service and we organize
consultation rounds with inhabitants.
We've had fifty meetings and workshops of this kind so far, within
which the inhabitants had a chance to have their say to air their
ideas and comments.
And these workshops were also a very valuable source of knowledge
for us in terms of GU survey, that is something that had a very
simple structure.
So we asked dwellers a question about their basic activities
in their districts, where they shop, where they use recreation
opportunities, where they integrate themselves with others,
or they would like to do so.
And these are the questions.
This is an image of the Newport survey, the part of the district
of the so called not a part in your port And you can see now points
mapped onto the map as a result of the survey.
And you can see the concentration of these points.
They showed us which places in the space were crucial for the
inhabitants where they like to meet, and these are those spaces
that we believe we should pay the greatest attention to.
And this is how a catalog was composed for thirty five districts
of banks with guidelines for managing local spaces that is useful
both for to inhabitants.
And we believe that it constitutes knowledge base for for example,
submitting applications to the civic budgets for bottom up
activities of the councils of districts and other applications
of mission opportunities.
But it is also of use to the administration units that later on
implement investments and they're responsible for the commissioning
of projects.
So the guidelines of banks, local spaces are then transformed
into projects and then they are implemented.
Our agency is responsible for this stage, so for urban analysis
and mapping, for consulting local communities, for defining
the network of local spaces and then for drafting the guidelines.
The guidelines have the shape of a card or chart and they are then
translated into concepts, particular projects, implementation
and then passing the space over to the inhabitants for them to
enjoy it.
And the the chart itself is knowledge in a nutshell.
It has three pages, first page the description of a location,
page two all the potential and investment potentials concerning
the environment of natural environment.
And the last page is the pages guidelines with a draft sketch
showing the vision of what's a given space might look like in
the future.
And these visions that we sketch with our hands are well received
by the inhabitants, because they're not three D renderings
they're not photorealistic result of photorealistic processing
But this is just a starting point for discussion and inhabitants
who feel interest to join in the discussion as this project is
clearly not they already made one.
Decisions have not been made yet, so they still have a chance
to have their say in best local spaces.
We also pay attention to the need of the day to the demands related
to climate changes and the necessity of the city to adapt to them.
So we bet on that blue and green infrastructure and improving
the local climate and also on the solutions that will derive
from from Naicha.
A few elements have already been implemented following our guidelines.
And well, here you have a confined space, the periphery of Dyansk,
the Aradio, and around Arava street Probably not very telling,
but anyhow, Dyansk Water Management Company created a water
garden and that was implemented with the support of local kids
from local school.
There's the first stage of this local space implementation.
There are further components to be introduced in this area and
again according to this card that you can see, there's for example,
there'll be new trees planted, there'll be lighting there and
a small square, another space in the Pitske Miguel district.
This part of the local space was subjected to designing activity
and actually these designs were implemented.
It was open publicly, I mean last week now a few words on coordination.
It is extremely important when we talk about consistent development
of space and things can actually we've been coordinating in
multiple levels.
First is the local zoning plans work thanks.
Local spaces are vital input.
So this is where they changed into the local zoning policy with
its provisions.
Another dimension is issuing opinions, projects and concepts.
And then there is a consultation around on the green budget
and society budget within the local spaces.
Currently, the City Architect office in Glance University
of Technology have called a competition for students on how
to introduce changes in thirty two times local spaces.
We can't wait to see the results of students work.
Thank you very much for your attention and I would like to invite
you to by a visit to our website.
We'll see all the materials and also a video material that was
produced by our team to say promotional and educational coverage
and dance local spaces.
Thank you very much.
I think all of you who have stood on stage know I'm wearing sunglasses.
It's really hard to to look into those bright lights.
Those of you who came to Granisk for the first time can be somewhat
surprised at how well public transport works.
The city structure actually helps here, but it's not that that
everything is perfect, of course that things can't be improved.
That's why we need to keep improving our public transport, especially
rail transport, specifically towards the quickly developing
new districts of the city.
We obviously know it's quite quite a bit of a challenge.
We know what consequences are associated with it.
That's why I'd like to ask Director Edit to to come on stage once
again.
I have trouble locating her, but please join us here.
Please tell us about the PKM south project, ladies and gentlemen
beginning and I'm ending.
That's what being a director is all about, I suppose.
This is the last, our most recent project.
I'll present to you a vision, a vision that is some more complicated
when it comes to implementation.
It's a very costly investment.
Nevertheless, it's very optimistic.
It gave us wings, so to speak.
Let me present to you our vision how we would like not so much improve
the city but how to.
So I'd like to change that very part of Nice because we are talking
district to which is located in the South of the city which is
home to quarter of the population of the city.
We are talking about an area of nearly forty square kilometers,
very spread out area and difficult to to establish a transport
structure.
And due to the fact that task is sort of longitudinal, we have
the lower part, the middle part, the upper part, we don't have
that many cross connections here.
We're also going through these horizontal structures through
the valleys.
So we're basically going in line with the natural shape of the
terrain.
So now we're going to this to the South of the city using real transport.
Right now rail transport concentrate on the concentrates on
the lower terrace of the city.
What's very important is the fact that Granisk is covered by
local plans in sixty five percent to which which is law for for
the city for developers for investors So of course any sort of
changes creates conflicts, but also various legal proceedings
due to loss of investment process, investment opportunities.
So we are entering here into city fabric that is quite intensively
used and densely planned and we are moving into that with with
a line, with a straight line of this, with a line of six point five
kilometers sixty stops So quite a challenge.
A couple more pieces of information, some statistical data.
a hundred and thirty four thousand inhabitants in the buffer
area around the bus stops Around the stops which we've taken
into consideration.
And currently this these buffers are home to sixty thousand
of people Now.
Why?
Why the idea for rail transport?
Urban rail transport?
Well, the recent past shows us very clearly how the structure
has changed.
nineteen ninety and twenty twenty two we can see how many new
inhabitants have appeared Of course this is what always happens
in the first stage, developers are first and and the city sort
of catches up with infrastructure investments.
There are a lot remains to be done, but due to the fact that we do
have local plants, we have reserves, we can, we basically know
what we're doing there.
We have certain certain plans, certain possibilities, certain
ways of being flexible and reacting, which is quite important
since the planning process based on the existing regulations
in Poland is a long term process.
It takes a long time to prepare a single plan.
That's an average three years, very long period of time.
And the investment process does not wait for these types of documents.
Investors want to do it here and now.
Based on the expectations and demand of residents and economic
conditions in a given.
period In twenty twenty nine these investments should be completed
That's our goal.
That's our schedule.
It's connected with the fact that we will be looking for financial
funds from outside because investment is about two point five
billion So what this is half of the budget of the city, a bit, a
bit more.
The city itself is not able to carry out such investments.
So we're talking about the main investment plus we have complementary
investments which have to be carried out in parallel in order
to have the system work.
So seven point five kilometers well quite a long way six stops
twelve minutes and you are in the city center the station which
is located three four hundred meters from here So definitely
the comfort of life inhabitants would would improve markedly.
Today all habitant side are used individual transport or public
transport by conventional ones, so they use the same crowded
roads.
There's a lot of traffic, a lot of jams, you know.
In case of any accidents, it becomes quite quite traumatic.
Now for the system to work, we have to fill in complete the rail
transport structure.
Rail transport structure.
This map shows you the plant tram routes in the city.
We've planned twenty nine point five kilometers in the city
three point five kilometers is going to be carried out quite
soon This is the GPW road An important element to which complements
our planned rail transport is the is the short stretch of one
point four kilometers of of tramway lines which will close up
the loop and to will allow the residents to to move in both the
direction which is quite important to alleviate the pressure
from the city center the dice central node because all all the
roots lead there and the investments which are going to be carried
out soon They're programmed already in the city structure in
the city budget.
Since we are working on development programs, we're talking
with residents about them.
We're consulting various elements connected with infrastructure.
TOD has already appeared today in one of the presentations.
So our idea to improve the quality of the space, to create new
spaces is such management of these stations, bus
stops to make them, to make them attractive, attractive places
for the existing inhabitants.
For the new inhabitants, it's very important for us, for the
South of the city that becomes to stop being a bedroom community
and to become a living city district.
So applies attractive and so on and on the same on the same level
as small, more century located districts.
So this is our line of thinking.
We are we're going to talk with private investors about chances
to to activate employment opportunities and districts or so,
how to introduce new services which are very much needed and
how to connect it all and create attractive place for living.
We're talking about six stops as I've said, which are located
in various in places of various character.
Here on the plan, you can see the existing railway transport
structure, PKM and streetcar, streetcar, tramway lines and
tramway line which is currently being planned.
The entire TKM is not going underground, it's partially going,
it's actually partially underground, partially underground,
going through tunnels and so on.
So we also have these notes where residents can change modes
of transport sort of challenges.
This railway infrastructure is being amended by cycling infrastructure,
a system of bike paths document which has been accepted recently
by the next City Council which was prepared by the next development
agency with in cooperation with the bicycle officers.
So we have a new element and so called echo strada cycling Echo
Strada, one of the elements which will help in in connecting
that south part of the city and our goals here were multi functionality
when we are starting to prepare the council and division for
the area.
We also we wanted to create new new streets, create Commercial
Services along streets, network of public spaces so that inhabitants
could could move in a safe, comfortable way.
Behind that we have a network of the bicycling, walking pathways
and reinforcing environmental aspects.
We have this general goal called Green City, which is carried
out through the development projects and concrete investments.
As I've said, the stops are located in different part of the district
which are of different character.
We have historical places, for example on the on the Shindigo
Bocheha tracked where there isn't that new.
Not not that much possibilities of further to introduce new
build up areas.
So we concentrate on introducing new services or the Madanesquego
area.
We have not that many county lands, there are not city doesn't
own a lot of land there which is quite important because quite
an important point because investments obviously could step
in the quickest on the on the city, on the city land which would
be made available.
So however, any changes of to the existing land which is already
built up in another very attractive manner is a long term process
because these are also private investors.
But we are thinking long term and our vision is going to be translated
into planning documents in accordance with the planning Act
and then into local plants in general plan, general master plan
and a little bit of additional information, Another stop which
is quite a bit of quite a challenge because here a rail, rail,
railway line would go underground.
So we free up some space here that is currently being used as as
a parking depot.
So we're introducing new objects here, residential service
functions with green spaces, with public spaces.
We assume that these investments are going to be introduced
in stages due to problems connected to a flat ownership.
So we have different owners here, but but of course there are
various legal limitations here and the biggest potential,
the next two stops which carry a lot of potential for change there
because there's there's quite a bit of land that we own there
that it's not invested on.
So there's a lot of opportunity to create attractive spaces.
We are maintaining walking connections.
We use natural assets.
We have a number of streams here along the way which on one hand
to create a barrier for road infrastructure, for rail infrastructure,
but on the other hand form an attractive point of attraction
for new residents and can be utilized and can be capitalized
on.
And we have a large exchange node, the Kavala location there
we plan an attractive place with we force a large parking infrastructure
for residents who will come to guys, leave their cars there and
then switch to train and travel to to work.
Few pieces of statistics.
This is the number of residences, number of residents, sixty
thousand hundred thirty thousand workplaces Our vision changes
that.
We wanted to propose such a solution where we would have goals
which we set out for ourselves in the beginning.
So aside from Commercial Services, we also in social services.
We also found places for the new schools, kindergartens, because
with such an increase in residence, there's also need for new
social infrastructure.
We needed new workplaces.
That's why you've created this place in such a way to find places
to find space for office functions, various services etcetera.
That's our goal.
But of course, ahead of us are talks with investors, with developers,
whether we'll be able to introduce such points into into local
plans to guarantee that now what do residents get?
Well, quick access to the city center, twelve minutes.
Brand new green areas, parks, schools, kindergarten, neighborhood
houses.
This is all mostly on the side of city investments and the whole
network of connections.
We have to find such solutions which will allow for carry out
of this infrastructure in a way which is of least conflict, which
is least invasive when it comes to introduction of new communication
pathways.
Of course new workplaces, offices and a wider cultural offer
attractive public spaces creating new places of meeting for
residents who will be able to build new local communities.
Today is made more difficult due to the character of the district
which is of of bedroom character.
Our analysis has shown that few minutes walk to the stop was in.
Of course the the most attractive areas are close to the stops,
then then it decreases somewhat.
We plan for maximum height of thirty thirty some meters close
to the stops In other areas we would see five to seven levels
maybe so.
So we could use the two the two lowest levels for various types
of services and some visions illustrations.
This is how we see the area connected with the first stop and this
is what we would like it to look like attractive places.
Here we connect to the historic neighbourhood.
We use the potential of water.
We have stops in the neighbourhood stops.
This investment has been prepared by the city along with the
Pekim Urban Railways.
Of course there's still negotiations talks with the historical
work conservator.
These are not easy talks.
So it's it's a process and there probably be changes introduced.
So it's just just a vision here, other examples of tuition to Cisco.
Today we have a parking pass depot, but we want a new quality to
introduce there, an urban square.
We have office spaces, services, other stops, Kavala, the most
intensively developed area and we also talking about this exchange
now to where we make use of natural assets.
This is sort of a wetland area, biodiverse area.
So we wanted to capitalize on it to make use of those attractive
points and also new employment opportunities, new services
appear.
So this is the vision and we turn this vision into planning procedures.
Currently as you can see in yellow and orange marked plans at
various stages of development.
But we are facing yet another challenge.
Our act on special planning has changed.
We don't have that much time to prepare these documents due to
the fact that the ACT placed and has the burden of preparing it
another document for the entire city, which is called general
Plan.
So we have our work cut out for us.
We're ending up all procedures and starting a nuance right away.
So I think that people who work in urban planning and city plans,
they know what it means when we have changes in regulations during
the the process.
So that's all from me.
I encourage you to visit our website.
There's more information there.
Thank you very much.
I can hear how many questions you would like to ask, but there
will be time for discussion.
We'll have more than needed actually because we suffer no delays
in this session.
So hold your horses as we are going to give you a chance to ask you
a question.
So there will be a moderated discussion and towards the end are
the students of the Danish University of Technology here that
will soon become young qualified town planners.
Have you heard exactly what Madam Director said?
There is a lot of work to be done, OK And these are well educated
people, Madam Director, so you'll certainly having your stuff
coming soon.
We've talked about transport that should be efficient, reliable
and friendly, and it's super important for the city of the future.
We also talked about local spaces.
Our life, as we try to show you with Arabic scripts yesterday
is going to become ever more local.
We've talked about revitalization, about the need to preserve
all that we have.
What is missing?
Participation.
It was supposed to be presented by Pietro Tij, showing the perspective
of the the young city.
Pietro cannot be with us today.
We wish him a lot of health, but Professor Pietro Lawrence is
going to present instead.
And of course he's free, competent.
Ladies and gentlemen, as mentioned by Professor Milanovic,
Unfortunately mister Pietro Tij to his health issues of a rather
sudden nature cannot be with us today.
Yeah, apologizes for that.
But today we're going to focus on participation in the context
of the young city district.
But if you allow me, I will add on to the BKM Bodnia.
So the railway connection in the southern part of banks, can
I will add something because we have Tomic IT expert.
If we could have the presentation back please.
I would like to show you a single slide from the previous presentation
just to show you certain issues related to where the young
city is located but also with yet another study along
the alley.
That's a work in progress.
So we're not we will not really show you this, this avenue We are
going to use another opportunity that lends itself to do that.
We'll hopefully you will revisit more than just once.
I apologize for clicking through it but I really want to get right
to to this line.
Ladies and gentlemen, Madame Director presented, we can say,
a solution that is now in the design stage.
The vision has been completed in terms of town planning, railway
planning, transportation programme planning for the extension
of something that we called PKM So it's Pomeranian Metropolitan
Railway.
It starts off in jest right in the center there and it goes through
the through to the airport and then further on to the Kashubian
Highlands.
And this is where we can talk about it as well, an investment that
has redefined the development opportunities of this entire
corridor here.
By the way, that was an investment that used the railway line
that was built at the beginning of the twentieth century and
was then destroyed during World War two This is what what has
been described Imam a moment ago is a new extension, something
that is built from scratch, but still it does rely on certain
town planning reserves that we've had for many, many decades
present.
And most of these areas are public areas and we do have this time
planning reserve.
It has been criticised on multiple locations but owing to the
fact that we have it, we can resolve any proprietary issues
and we can actually take liberty and allow ourselves to think
about such bold investments.
The key issue is to connect these two elements together.
For that purpose we will use the existing railway but also we
have to rethink the structure of the railway network.
These are just technical details that I will not and well went to now.
But parallel to this, in the context of what Nam Director has
mentioned, the concept of transitory and to development, we
want to turn the potential that is related with developing the
newly designed railway stations or railway stops together
with NICE Development agency.
Also, the City architect 's office has been running a study concerning
all this lane here we call it the grand arska avenue route and
we are now amidst A participation process that relates a decision
on how consecutive parts of this area should be developed.
And we've been working here based on town planning conditions
as a document, but we also discounts the visions of particular
investors.
We have been analysing and considering the opinions from district
councils, local communities, many other stakeholders.
And owing to all this, we stand a chance as I hope to develop a vision
that will constitute A compromise and will make it possible
to redefine the existing main transportation axis of the city.
And then those are mental processes and also zoning plans will
result from this well well developed compromise.
And this is work in progress as mentioned.
So we are not presenting to you a comprehensive presentation
on that, but and here I'm addressing our local guests in the first
place.
If you are really interested in this topic.
In a month 's time on the twenty eighth of november we are planning
to sum up this participation process and there's going to be
a demonstration We'll use the existing model of the city that
you saw upstairs yesterday and we will then advanced with further
ideas on how to shape this part of the city.
And I'm mentioning this because in this context we will have
not only the railway line that is here, but also as mentioned
by Madam Director, there is also a dense network of tram connections
and it also concerns the the area that I would like to move on to
discussing now the Comente Conductors church 's presentation
I would like to tell you now more about the so called young city
and that is when i'm telling you about that because this area
it is of interest to town planners and it has been so for over thirty
years now The history of this area is also very rich.
We will try to hold another conference or seminar, perhaps even
in May next year that will pertain to a more detailed development
of this area.
We still need to agree on details with with the mayor, but that
is the general plan.
So if you are interested again in transforming the area of the
young city, then May twenty twenty four is probably the best
moment to book to revisit godineskin to join the discussion
I believe that our airlines should probably pay us because we
we bring in customers and let them flourish.
Anyhow, probably Professor Mironovic would not be happy about
such unsustainable travelling, but still OK So ladies and gentlemen,
we will now discuss the issues concerning the young city and
I would like to ask our technical team to switch on to mister Pietro.
Before we can see the presentation displayed, let me tell you
two words on the history of the young city and where this name
came from.
Ladies and gentlemen, in the context of Dyansk.
The the original Urban Development starting in the medieval
times was related with the so called old town area When the city
was a bit later period what developed what the so called main
town This main town is the one that we can see looking out of the
windows of the Palm Station with the monumental Saint mary 's
pacific in the town hall that we paid a visit to on sunday night
So this is the area that from our point of view is the most valuable
piece of the historic settlement here in there.
So that's the main town.
Now it so happens that particular districts of the inner city
are called as like separate cities.
We've got the Old Town, the lower city or so.
It's always a town or a city in their name that, says Pierak.
Presentation and revitalization.
You learn the names of some of these districts, so that's yet
another experience of ours related to the transforming of the
city.
And in the late medieval times, to the north of the Old Town,
a new settlement was established that Teutonic older Knights
that ruled gangs back then called the Young City, and this place
was supposed to be competitive to the main town.
So to those city dwellers that inhabited the main town back then,
and at the same time, it was supposed to be a modern harbor
as it was located at the main waterways and banks back then.
And it all went on pretty dynamically, but there were political
issues and economic challenges and so the young city at a certain
point was eradicated and quite and quite drastic circumstances.
So until recently it wasn't even clear where physically that
young city was located.
There were many elaborations on that publications, articles,
but they were more theoretical and that will try to guess where
the city was located and how it developed.
And you know the location of this place and that location.
A big defense structures, defense structures were built and
that were demolished at the end of the nineteenth century, the
beginning of the twentieth century.
Doctor bugalski 's book also mentions that the author is with
us and is standing modestly there leaning against the wall He'll
probably tell us about that in no time.
So you'll have a chance to learn a bit more about these developments.
Anyhow, in the place of what used to be meadows of the young city
as or timber warehouses of the young city as it was called Bhagavan,
in mid nineteenth century, new kind of industry started to develop
that was later known as Glansk Shipyard.
So that's what shipyard industry probably know about this big
industrial entity that regardless of producing ships also
made its way to the history of the world.
This is this place in Europe.
The collapse of the communist regime was initiated.
This is where the Solidarity movement was born.
So a huge society movement of the eighties that contributed
to the communist system collapse in Poland.
So we can say that this place is very special for a number of reasons.
It is very valuable owing to its very rich, complete history.
It is also a very interesting place in terms of its spatial arrangement.
By the way, attempts were made to have this site listed and the
World Heritage Sites a list of UNESCO so far.
So far these attempts have been to no avail.
But anyhow, even the attempts to prove how important it is.
Then the Thanks Shipyard went bankrupt.
After the collapse of the communist regime, This great state
owned entity simply did not withstand the market reality.
And in nineteen ninety seven the bankruptcy of this company
was declared and and important question arose what to do with
this enormous huge area How to shape it?
How to develop it so that it can be obvious?
Should it stay industrialist nature or should it be turned into
a new district of the city?
And how could it possibly be arranged anew so that it could meet
new new purposes?
And the discussion on that has been on for some thirty years now.
I myself, I've been involved in it ever since I began my professional
career, so this topic is very close to me.
It is also an area that's witnessed different generations of
visions and ideas and what it could potentially become.
So initially it was considered the location of a new business
district of banks.
That was the period of fascination with American developmental
models and in all places of this kind in Poland they would locate
local CBD Then that fad passed by and a fashion came for huge shopping
malls and so an idea was proposed to puts one there likely didn't
work.
Then residential high story buildings were considered again
to no avail.
And then a concept started evolving that we should do with a new
part of the inner city of dens.
It would be a more balanced district with a big share of residential
function, but the question appeared on how to shape it, What
should be important there and in what way this space could be
developed.
At the same time, the new owner of this area from nineteen ninety
nine that has been a private owned company called senerga ninety
nine and the company started designing processes and these
processes led to two thousand and four adoption of the zoning
plan for this area.
So we can say that a legal basis was established for further developmental
processes to be carried out.
This basis is over twenty years now and there are multiple flaws
about it.
But still we can say that the plans are what they are.
Unfortunately, sometimes there is little we can do about them.
It's good that we have because there are numerous places in Poland
with this process is going on beyond any kind of town planning
regulations.
So it is imperfect what is good that it is around, because at least
we have a solid basis to keep on thinking and developing it and
then we may try to adjust it.
Somehow the city authorities at the same time started working
on developing the shape of this area.
They involved a variety of stakeholders, both business partners
like owners for example, or developers and investors interested
in this area, but also with the participation of a group of NGOs
of local activists, artists and many other entities that were
really interested in the future of this area.
The first shipyard area in Gdansk started to stand considerable
emotions in the community in terms of their significance for
the identity of the city.
Yesterday when we took a tour, I tried to show you with my finger
the cranes that now have gained the the significance of the new
symbol of the city.
You know, the promotional marketing materials.
You will not see the Neptune fountain anymore, but you will see
the cranes.
They're both shipyard, but this is the case, right?
There has been a paradigm shift here in what symbolizes the city.
So we can say that the shipyard and the shipyard cranes have become
a new symbol of the city and owing to this they have also started
controversy and a lot of emotion in the community.
So when the City architect 's office was established one of the
very first activities that we implemented was the reactivation
of the stakeholders council for this area but also extending
the scope of its activity and so as to encompass all the
other brownfields so the northern part of the city located to
the north of the inner city So it's far more than just this historic
shipyard area, but this is the, the area that we are focusing
on today.
It has become very clear right from the beginning that it's not
possible to focus on experts, opinion only, and to impose anything
by the city clerks or experts or technocrats.
Instead, a broader discussion proved to be necessary on what
the young city would become.
That is why the first participation process was carried out
some time ago that resulted in the report and the first report
in the English and Polish language versions.
We have some printouts, if you're interested.
You can fetch them at the at the receptionist, no close to the
cloakroom.
So of course if you are not threatened with carrying around even
more paper in your luggage, but that's your decision anyway.
We also have electronic versions that we can make available to you.
So we can say that we have this first process that was initiated
within this process that took the entire autumn and winter of
twenty twenty one We defined the most important assumptions
concerning the future of this area and that was done with the
participation of land owners, private investors, non governmental
organizations, social stakeholders as we could call them district
councils, but also city authorities and those agencies that
are going to participate in the development of this area.
Owing to this process we arrived at the first version of what
is expected now of this area, what we want.
That was important because it's made it possible for certain
things to be agreed on and the discussion was held on all different
views of particular stakeholders.
So we identified them and well, it proved that we are not as different
as we thought we were.
So this participation process was initiated.
I'll tell you a bit more about the details of this process in a
moment.
But what is important, OK what is important?
Well, that's the way it goes time wise.
Anyhow, it is important that in this context a need was identified
to redesign the main transportation assumption concerning
this area.
So the so called new novavova street that's a street that was
built partially for private money but it's not very fortunate
in shape So now together with the development of this area and
with the ideas on locating a tram line there, as you saw on the
slide from the presentation of Madam Director, now we have a
chance to develop this street changing into one into one of the
main transportation access in the public space of the city.
So before we sat down to designing anything, the second stage
of this participatory process was carried out again.
We have reports in both Polish and English available for you.
And now jumping at the opportunity, but also knowing how limited
in time we are, I will just present the twenty slides I've prepared
for you.
No, just over a second.
So the area that we covered with it is not just a historic area
of the shipyard, but a much bigger area.
This is an area that had to be diagnosed comprehensively.
We had to identify the impressions related to the functioning
of it as expected in the future and that resulted in US defining
the main elements of the public spaces, transportation components
of the entire area.
And we also decided what the entire structure of this area was
like and what it was supposed to be like in the future.
We identified the need for introducing the the, the missing
bits and pieces in the entire structure.
All these elements can be found in the report.
We also discussed how this area relates to its surroundings,
both in terms of greenery, public spaces and in terms of defining
something that we would call neighbourhoods that are important
from this point of view.
And we also talked about the functions and that are of utmost
importance in this area.
So surprise, surprise, what resulted in it is a very sustainable
balanced program that constitutes a basis for creating this
district and shaping it into a fifteen minute district with
a number of neighbourhoods that were demarcated and also connections
between them.
The third places that Professor Reuter mentioned in her presentation
yesterday at the beginning.
So we can say that all these elements have been well collected
and put together into a single image.
You will find that in the report.
Should you have any questions, I'd love to answer them, but these
reports are also available for you and since Fresa Miranovich
is is pushing here in my direction, I will give the floor back
to her.
Ladies and gentlemen, today is a breakthrough moment because
until then we had to ask Professor Lawrence to to come to an end
and today I had to actually force him to to to start speaking.
Anyhow, another important thing that comes to my mind is that
it is for the first time that I've seen that the beginnings of
participation date back to the Teutonic.
Time to then go the times to the medieval ages.
But that means that we have ten minutes for a discussion.
So without further ado, I'm passing the mics to my colleagues.
Would you like to ask a question?
Crack a comment?
We have a wonderful, nice development team we've got thanks
City Architects here for you.
The first question I would like to be asked by one of our guests
comment is related to the previous session.
I know Jeffrey has left but maybe if any planner from UK can comment
on that.
But before that, Pietro, I wanted to tell if you're calling a
gadask as a young city.
So my home city is Chandigarh which is seventy year old only.
So that means that city is still toddler.
So, well, coming back on the question, yeah, coming back on the
question which I wanted to discuss about Windsor Palace, maybe
you know the Windsor is I mean good place for Castle, but in the
presentation he did not discuss about Legoland.
You know many of the people tourist visit to Windsor Palace because
these days now because of the Lagoland also and Windsor Palace,
there is no hotel also I mean in that city.
So people go in the morning and come back in the evening usually
because before Legoland, now the Legoland ticket is so expensive.
Even all the people who go in the morning and they come back in
the evening, they spend full day in Legoland because of, you
know, the character of the place.
So do you see the challenge of a visitor coming from London to
Windsor Palace and not visiting Windsor Palace?
They are.
They would like to spend more time in Legoland because of the
tourist, that's what.
So anyone would like to comment, I mean that's what I mean.
It was the question for the Jeffrey, but if any British planner,
if you want to discuss, I mean otherwise you can take it a comment.
But I suppose, I think that we can examine the tourism statistics
for the UK and the most popular tourist destination in the United
Kingdom is the Tower of London, in the middle of which is central
in London.
So the Royal Family and the history of the UK still attracts huge
numbers of tourists.
If people want to go to Legoland, that's up to them.
I don't and I can't comment on the price of LEGO I I only know that
thirty five years ago I bought my son LEGO and now my grandchild
plays with it.
So it lasts a long time.
It doesn't fade away or break.
So.
But I still think that history, the history of a place is attractive
to people.
Do people go to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower or to go to Disneyland?
Well, they probably go to both.
But I suspect that the Eiffel Tower will last longer than the
Disneyland.
And I really think that history is an heritage and there's so
much heritage in the UK we conserve our history very, very well.
And I think that for me, I give my vote to heritage rather than
Legoland.
But very, very shortly.
I just don't want you to miss the point.
It's a good that you, you raise the point of Eiffel Tower, Paris,
but you miss the point, the distance between London to Windsor
Palace and there is no hotel in that city.
I mean no good hotel in that city.
So the comparison of Eiffel Tower and that, I mean it's a little
bit, I mean it's a challenge for plan.
So I'm not saying that, you know, Lagoland is good or what is good.
I'm saying that tourists, when they come in the morning and go
back in the evening, their priority becomes LEGO land these
days.
Yeah.
So thank you, Mihachischewski.
Also let me introduce myself question dealing with of Dysk local
spaces.
Public spaces in the beginning showed us a simple definition
which was used for you to identify places with certain potential
of introducing changes.
And these points are from it in such a way that they basically
talked about public space that is functional, it's working
green, etcetera.
Perhaps you be become the victim of your own definition because
there was a need to identify problems and not what public space
should look like.
That's was not a problem sort of eating your own tail here.
Thank you for that question.
The criteria did not really go against us because we
were functioning with the city fabric that's already existing.
Perhaps we would use different criteria if we're going to build
from scratch, but these are existing spaces and in order to become
more attractive of course they they should be used in in in daily
life.
It's not it's not like opera or cinema or stadium, these are these
are services for for residents, for for, for everyday tasks.
So these places should concentrate on serving local community
and these are places which function within the existing build
up.
So these criterias basically describe functioning existing spaces.
Professor Matan Quenchuk, the first row here we can have two
more questions maybe so we'll probably won't have time for for
many more.
Stephanie Martin Quenchuk, Dysk University of Technology
I live in the Osama districts.
A question to Madame Director and context note of Legoland,
but my land.
Maybe soon we'll have amusement center my land in Osawa and I
was a little saddened by this plan shown by Mother Director.
On one hand, I'm really happy to see that we see this direction
of public development of transport towards south But I think
the image of Gdansk is not shown very well because Kdansk is kind
of cut out of metropolitan Bogdansk is totally surrounded by
other units, Southport, Cadena, I mean these are obvious right
to the north.
And of course I understand we should develop public transport
in various directions.
But my question is what is the plan of joining the northern part
where we have the the Osova district where we have the Mile and
the Polish Legoland.
Plus we have a huge wholesale center rank, which is regional
center of selling wholesale projects.
We have districts, residential districts which are intensively
developing, intensively building up.
So, because PKM is definitely not going to help there, since
Madam Director is with us here.
Well, as I've said, Dinesk is not easy to communicate, to join up.
It's not always possible to carry out railway transport everywhere.
PKM in the northern part is already done.
Reactivated existing railway line, introduce new stops that
will probably also improve situation there.
The transport will be based on bus passes, on developing infrastructure
connected with individual transport.
Let's bear in mind that the existing conditions don't really
illustrate what we've planned.
The quality of infrastructure is changing due to the fact that
we have changes in policy.
So we don't want to build the so called highways super ways We
are building green alleys, tree lined streets and we're using
one lane for bus passes for example, to have quicker individual
transport to have better possibility.
Today asava is accessible frankly by just a single road, right.
So it's it's not easy to get there.
But this map today was prepared for concrete presentation.
I didn't talk about the entire communication layout because
that's a larger issue.
Soon we'll have the the second ringer ring ring road that's going
to be open.
We'll have new nodes that will be communicated with it.
So the communication scheme is going to change and we will continually
amended.
We're building the nuclear SCAR road as well, bus passes and
Spatserova street due to the fact that it's a road that's going
through a village.
It's also very difficult and it's kind of difficult to build
there because it goes through a natural forest area.
So we are thinking about pendulum traffic.
So we're looking for alternative solutions.
But the railway transport, no, well, it's difficult to to have
it everywhere.
That's a euphemistic way of saying it.
Another question Legoland so good.
My question is for Edita, I think yes, you two questions.
The first one is, is there any system by which the prep because
what you mentioned was very reactive to development, right.
So you're planning for something that a part of the city that
has, it's been developed already.
Is there any system by which private sector pays for transport
infrastructure?
And my second question is about our public services being planned
in that area to avoid the population going to the city center
so that they can walk or cycle to the hospital or the schools and
not take additional trips?
Thank you.
These are indeed excellent questions.
And especially the first one.
Yeah, OK Can I, can I?
Yeah.
Option.
Option for transport, answer in Polish.
Ladies and gentlemen, public transport is conditioned by regulations.
Special company was created by Moscow College Metropolitan
from Moscow Railways which is managed by the Marshall of the
province.
Because the county cannot build the railway lines according
to regulations.
That's why you had to create this special company.
So there are no private investors here, it's just the self government
or in the county at various levels.
So it's being Co finance from our internal budgets.
However, as part of the analysis connected with access to social
services.
Now we were also looking for places for new schools because as
I've pointed out there is a lot of new residents which is followed
by needs for places and schools etcetera, other services and
the county does have an impact.
Here's and also kindergartens nurseries.
Here we can introduce private investors, various foundations
because such possibilities open up.
For example, county points out in the local plan that it reserves
given area for social functions.
A private investor is found who carries out the project goes
into an agreement with the city.
Like in Dice today, we have the so called kindergarten coupons
where the city is subsidizing places and kindergartens So this
is how we functioned.
And in the back of our heads we remember that in local plants.
So we will have to limit residential functions and services.
So we don't have such a situation.
That private investor comes does the residential and then what
and now we have a limited number of of of such lands for for public
functions.
So it's it's that's why it's very important that this vision
is going to be transformed into into local law local plan which
will be which will be holding for investors.
So and the county sells real estate that goes into public private
ownership with private investor will have the legal basis for
demanding or or forcing the funding out of certain obligations.
When it comes to social services, because private services
we don't put them in in in exposure plants for example hospitals
etcetera, we don't carry out such services but function social
functions, yes, neighborhood houses, we do plan for subspaces,
we make them available to our social partners.
So what we can impact, do we concentrate on other remaining are
going to be limited by a certain percentages.
Given percentages given services a given area.
Professor Lawrence wanted to add something thirty years of
turbo liberal development.
And this is the result, right?
I mean, everybody thinks that we should even pay developers
to come and earn just more money.
And this is all right.
Well, this is where we are, OK Context what we just heard.
I'd like to just pay attention to the fact that the entire gigantic
development of Task south was the effect on one hand of certain
planning heritage coming back from the nineteen eighties seventies
eighties don't know exactly when but we had a single investor
or just the state right The state run economy The state was building
everything, including all the residences.
That did not happen very well, but what happened was planning
change in eighty nine when the system completely broke down
and private sector stepped in which started to invest in these
areas, which started to build up these areas from not completely
aware owners of these areas.
And very quickly a new district started mushrooming and in twenty
years big new district was built.
A classic example of something which we know proto the airmen
development that's you know from IKEA.
So, so the places for infrastructures were planned but due
to the crisis in financial and state finances, it was never done.
That's why we're catching up, that's why we are doing things
that we're doing the right way.
As the trembling lines recently we've built some new ones and
other ones are being planned and also we are using our planning
reserve here that they've mentioned in this way.
So here we are dealing with certain catching up game due to the
certain model we inherited and also due to the objective situation
which is connected with the lack of possibility of financing
the entire infrastructure a little similar to what happened
in in London Dockland first district was built and later it was
being the infrastructure was put in was just different economic
reality.
Well, last question, just one more question then I'll stop you
if you ran on too long.
If they could just add something that question that Madam Director
mentioned the Pomoski railway line, it changes circulation
in the entire metropolitan area in the region.
These twelve minutes of access to Gdansk, it shows the analogous
situation of the existing desk.
It's more more important to those who come from the region than
those who travel within the city.
And this will create a complete completely different preferences
changes because from that south you'll be able to go to Gdania
more quickly and to Gdansk and perhaps this will be more interesting
to people there.
You know the the work market, employment market will will be
connected in different way.
And my question to the revitalization, in regards to revitalization
in guys, does guys follow or does the return on investment disproportionately
right, if the city invests let's say in certain degraded districts
or unions of report, Do you research, do you study, do you draw
conclusions what sort of business effects happen because for
example revitalization in guys goes one to five we are running
out of time.
So the question is if ones what invested by the public sector
in revitalization, do we actually follow what's the return
on investments, the private investment, Does anybody follow
that very interesting question?
Well, I can't answer that question at that point because the
first steps of following the impact they will be taken after
the investments is finished in the in the lower town in Arunya
as part of public private partnership.
We've just started the process today.
We have plans a number of things will happen along the way and
we'll see on perhaps the, you know, it's too soon to tell, that's
my point.
But but we can see the positive reaction when the city initiates
certain elements connected with infrastructure improvement
has a positive impact because private investors come in, they
care investments not just commercial but also investments
for social communities, for the local communities.
It's so.
Frankly, as far as stays concerned, I don't quite know if such
if such research has been made, We'll see.
Well, it's an interesting idea to to to to find out.
Thank you very much for participating in this session.
My time has run out and I'm turning the microphone over to Professor
Lawrence, Director Bonnski, who will show you a very interesting
book.
Ladies and gentlemen, I promise not to talk too long.
Today we have an opportunity to learn about the first publication
from entire series of publications choices about DYNSK Roma
Structure, the first yellow book.
We've touched upon the subject of the Western Front of the city
center of DYNSK, but it's only a working name because with the
mayor of the city we are thinking what's a better name should
be coined for this part of the city.
But we thought it would be a great opportunity today to present
this book to you as a source of experts on city development and
town planning.
That's why we also have an English language version of it.
The area is interesting enough for it to be touching a very interesting
part of the city that is supposed to undergo considerable transformations.
As the city architects office, we've been carrying out studies
concerning this part of the city, but they're not advanced enough
to present them and for their additions of conferences.
I think we'll have plenty of opportunities to do that.
Now I would like to give the floor to Gosh Bugalski, who is the
author of this book, and he'll tell you about the most important
components.
And of course, let me add that during the coffee break, Doctor
Bugalski will gladly sign the book.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm very happy that I have a chance to present to you my book my
elaboration that I published in twenty twenty one The celebration
was ordered by Advanced Development Agency and City Architect,
and back then it was decided that the book would also be published.
It is to open a discussion in the city and create a space to make
materials produced by experts in public and for them to have
a chance to resonate.
What is important for me is this experts role that I trying to
take when when carrying out the studies and preservation and
conservation when you use the paradigm of cultural heritage
and experts hands has quite a hard task.
My primary objective here was to show the material, the historic
material, the material that constitutes a set of avenue
layers concerning the area that we are going to talk about.
So the Western Front of the city center of Dinesk does not necessarily
exist in the awareness of the city dwellers.
That's a space that you pass through basically that is used for
transportation purposes.
Is not the the the space in which you would spend time, hang around,
relay burn.
This study initiates an attempt to understand the space and
to understand why this space is so challenging.
Hopefully as a result, further elaborations will be created
whose objective would be to change this perception that is very
negative.
It is a negative space in this part of the city center of dinescale.
This this is my impression, so we can see the cover of the book.
You all have it now, so it's comfortable for me to talk to those
of you who have the book.
I wouldn't like to focus on the content because you have it, but
rather tell you more about the idea itself.
So let us start with paying attention to the area that we are talking
about.
Why Western Front of the city Center.
The plan shows you where the city center is and here we have this
area.
Within this presentation, I will try to explain to you what this
Western Front is.
As mentioned, this is just a tentative name.
It is not.
Something that is going to be Slater and just a technical name,
and it relates to the stronghold, to the fortifications of the
city and the area, has underwent urbanization and was included
in the city when this part was freed from what used to be the city
walls protecting it.
Why am I here and why did I carry out this study?
Well, a few years ago I published my first book, and that was my
doctoral dissertation, and it was about ring developments
in urban structures of modern cities of Poland, as exemplified
by Dinesk, Poznani, Roswov, and Krakow.
The publisher gave it a less refined name, just called the Plants,
Promenades, Rings and Plants Meaning particular urban structures
as well.
So ever since the nineteenth century, ever since the Napoleon
walls, the city walls were erected in the cities and you'll see
many examples around city cities across Europe today with Janowski
in well, he was the the father of the post town planning.
He defined this factor of defence.
So he said that among many different factors, what was shaped,
what shaped the cities was also this defense factor.
For many and tens and hundreds of years the cities were surrounded
with city walls and defense walls.
So when they are then demolished, they give space to new
settlements, new housing estates that then will constitute
something that close around the cities.
The Krakow plants and the and the other circular structures
are to be witnessed in various cities.
In my doctoral dissertation I write about eight or nine such
such structures like plant, things like that three poets, avenue
Promenades and and Krakow.
There are also spaces of what used to be a note, and there is shubin
's ring and pause nine You've got also an attempt of recreation
such structures in the form of post war Polish conservation
schools in Warsaw and here in the dance.
We also have a similar structures.
So we've got the city center and we've got this ring that took
the place of what used to be the city walls and one small fragment
of that is discussed in the book I'm presenting to you today.
So the Western Front is something that's created at the end of
the nineteenth beginning of the twentieth century.
And this is an area A right, that's the remnants of the fortification.
So there is the gauge you can see in the right hand side of the image
and then Pan German architecture is right next to it.
That's a design by Hermann Joseph Steben.
And this area is yet another layer that is being added to this
part of the city.
I'm not going to show you images, but the cultural and the urban
legacy that is described in the book is presented in an album
like form.
It is usually the images that tell the story best.
They tell us the story of the nature of the space that we are focusing
on.
There are multiple layers here.
Each of those photos show a different nature of the Western Front.
I encourage you to browse through the book.
It is an album like publication.
I believe that most of you would agree with me that the books about
architecture are to be browsed through more than red more often
than not, and so that you've got this album like quality.
But today I would like to tell you very quickly about this textual
layer of the book as it appears to be really important and I think
it will be easier for you to just go through the images than read
the text itself.
So there's a challenge of reading through all these layers of
the city legacy.
I tried to go through a chronology of spatial, of spatial transformations,
but it is hard to do in a city that has that many layers.
Chronology would not really be helpful because we do not read
it like that when we are here at the Western Front of the city center.
We cannot understand the progression of these transformations,
and it is also related to the to the outcome of the World War two
that actually devastated all that.
And then there were some fragmentary attempts to reconstruct
this and that.
And so town planning legacy is even stronger in this area than
the legacy of what has been preserved.
So I took this chronological attempt.
So I do.
I do sketch this chronology that describes the entirety but
actually does insufficient to actually get to the point of each
of the items that constitutes part of the Western Front.
And in order to do that, I collected what I found to be the most
important plans, the most important satellite images.
They are collected on the collectively they they are presented
as a juxtaposition and then later on each of them has a space in
the book.
So each consecutive stage like for example the city prior to
the city was being demolished.
So we can still see the city around which fortifications go and
that that was the case for three hundred years So that's the main
historical framework for this space.
And you've got really a small portion of what of this that is left,
but we've got that preserved in the names of the streets.
We've got some some Rams there that were hidden under the stone
embankments, but it's really difficult to find this space.
Another one is the Glance green great reconstruction of the
city that happens after eighteen ninety five after the fortification
of the city And that's a massive transformation.
When you look at the red color, we can see that it's just a curtain
that was created separating the historic city.
And another portion of this effort is what was done after the
Second World War reconstruction.
Reconstruction did not really cover the entirety of the area.
What was reconstructed were these settlements that Professor
Lawrence mentioned, the main town, the Old Town, the old suburb
that is a semi Old Town settlement.
But generally speaking, there are further settlements that
were left intact.
Actually.
What were the plans?
Well, you'll find that out in the book.
They were really interesting.
We were supposed to have something that would resemble the Palace
of Science and Culture and also then another layers.
What we are building today, we are in one of those today because
we are here at the West Front, Western Front of the city centre.
So which of these legacies does the new architecture relate to?
What kind of relationship is that?
These are the questions that I pose in the book, but I believe
that chronology is very insufficient here, so I abandoned it
and from it I move on to the urban structure because you need to
understand the city or try to understand the city through its
urban structure.
Where is this water Western Front located?
First Division concerns those three settlements.
And so we have the main town, the most important ones if we one.
If we look at it, you'll see the Saint Mary's Church.
You'll see the Old Town Hall.
We have the Old Town which is supposed to be the oldest, but you
do not read this legacy anymore and we've got the old suburb and
the the area we are talking about is squeezed between those three
settlements and the Kashubian Highlands.
The second arrangement is two ring shaped settlements that
I mentioned already and they also partially were tackled by
me in my in my dissertation.
So stick in the ring.
This is mostly here in this area we are talking about because
the northern one is the one with the young city that you heard
about in the presentation David by Professor Lawrence a moment
ago and so that plan was never really fully implemented.
And then you've got another ring plus three new composition axis.
This is a situation in which the city is completely destroyed.
In nineteen forty five nineteen ninety five percent of the city
was brought to debris So the reconstruction was supposed to
be the building of a better guys can for it to be better.
New axes were introduced, axes were introduced, and the history
of them is really interesting.
The way they're shaped, the directions in which they were really
built, is something that reverberates even today, and this
is something that I described in detail in the elaboration that
you got today.
But some of the places are particular state case studies that
go beyond what I've already described.
And in this context, I listed four arrangements that I analyzed
in greater details, but I wanted to refer to just one of those.
I'm going to skip through a lot of that because there is no time,
but as you can see, the description concerns particular plans
and parts that were developed throughout history in isolation
from the chronology.
So it's more about how the multiple days can be physically experienced
today, how this can be read out and what it led to without revealing
too much when you leave the building we are in.
And when you see this big road going from the north to the South
of nines, that's the the main artery here.
So what used to be the fortifications and all those plans?
Actually, this is not something to be discovered.
Instead, the only possible artery was created.
Now, not to be person who stands between you and lunch.
I'll very briefly try to mention the last part.
That is the analysis of selected urban interiors.
I believe that there is a response.
I tried to point at this cultural legacy when it is so multifaceted,
when there are so many layers of it and we want to get access to
just one of them, we always do that at the cost of the remaining
ones.
So here what is most important is of course the urban composition.
This is at least my feeling.
That is why those urban interiors is something I tried to analyse
and and understand.
I divided them into.
I divided the entire Western Front into the old suburbs and the
main town one related to all the settlements here and the the
the maintown one.
And I tried to analyze them in the context of architecture that
actually is there is preserved.
So this is a legacy that actually prevails and we can still have
access to it.
To this I add additional layers that are more obvious ones like
for example what disappeared that used to be there before the
Second World War and how it relates to the to the preserved buildings.
What I'm going to do is just cutting through those elevations,
those facades, and I'm going to to really sort them out so as to
show certain styles and moments in history.
That exercise will give me an answer of how much of what we still
have in the facades here in the area of our concern.
I carried out four analysis and towards the end I put them together.
Despite the post war destruction, this process of reconstruction
and preservation of certain elements of the guys ring is still
visible and it's dominating nature.
I marked that in the upper part.
I can see that those structures dominate, but right away we discover
the new developments.
Are they complementary or are they something that that is in
opposition to what we had in the past world?
These are the questions that we might pose and try to answer on
our own.
I hope that fellow works will evolve from it and and that the city
architecture office will make such studies possible.
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
So we are encouraged to browse through the work to get acquainted
with it.
And I said it is not just a study, a single study, but a material
that was generated in the context of study works that the city
architect office is carrying out now.
So there is still a lot to be done in terms of the planned transformation
of it.
I thought it was, well, a good enough material for it to be published,
is one of the first publication in the series devoted to particular
parts of the city.
I say it is coming to an end.
I hope that we will publish the remaining works and again, this
publication is available to you, but anybody who's interested
in any city inhabitant will be able to also purchase it.
So you can also make this knowledge available to anybody who
is interested in it, even out of Poland.