Transformacje przestrzeni małych i średnich miast w kontekście nowych form zrównoważonego rozwoju na przykładzie współczesnych tendencji w lokalizacji kampusów akademickich

W artykule przedstawiono sposoby przeobrażeń przestrzeni miejskiej przez adaptacje funkcjonalne istniejących kubatur zorganizowanej tkanki urbanistycznej oraz lokalizacje kampusów akademickich. Przedstawione w artykule przykłady lokalizacji kampusów akademickich mogą stanowić znaczące materiały analityczne we współczesnym planowaniu przestrzennym małych i średnich miast.

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The paper presents new ways of spatial transformation of a town through functional adaptation of existing urban structures for academic campuses. Small and medium towns are a basic elements of urban network in Poland. In last fifteen years, many of them were severely weakened by a collapse in local industry - place of work for most of the habitants. In particularly bad position are towns which have lost the economical support of a large factories, employing often a few thousands of workers. The remaining building tissue, mostly abandoned, create a serious socio-economical problem. Development of academic campuses in small and medium towns is, in Poland, a fairly new tendency, demanding new way of looking at the aims of urban planning. Analysis of the areas for possible of adaptation for education purposes, can be used during the planning process of spatial composition in small and medium towns. Another phenomenon influencing functional transformations of build tissue, is degradation of ex-military areas. Mentioned above two types of areas make a serious problem ibr towns administration. Regulation and upgrading projects for these territories are usually based on local planning decisions (decisions on building conditions or decisions on public building location), because outdated local master plans cannot be applied in administration procedures. Examples of new localizations of educational functions presented in this paper may become an analytical support for contemporary spatial planning of small and medium towns.