Uwagi dotyczące "Wytycznych do opracowania problematyki ochrony wartości kulturowych w planach zagospodarowania przestrzennego"

The author presents ample reflections which came to his mind while reading "Guide-Lines for the Elaboration of Problems of the Protection of Cultural Values in Plans for Land Development” drawn in October 1981 by the Group of Experts of the Interbranch Commission for the Renewal of Towns and Old-Town Complexes. In the first place he points out that the dominating thought in the text of "Guide-Lines” as well as in the entire conservation and town planning is that the town is mere a set of houses, streets and communal amenities, while a socio-cultural sphere is left out totally. Monuments protection in Poland (and perhaps not only here) covers mainly a sphere of organised campaigns. All operations take place on the followig lines: a specialist — decident — investor — excutor, while the first and at the same time the last link, namely the user and consumer of culture, is forgotten. It is disquieting to think that the phrase in ’’Guide-Lines” ensuring that all districts are ”a social space” is only a courtesy, without any meaning in practice. Some reservations arise also with regard to the content of conservation programmes for urban historic complexes, and in the first place the problem of the zones of conservation practice. It seems improper to consider zone lines separately from conservation programmes. The conservation zone should be regarded as a result of conservation programme and not a main element of administrative decision. The last question to which the author brings attention is the problem of historic and town-planning studies, which should not be an urbanistic instrument but a comprehensive compendium of information on the town history, elaborated according to methods of historic investigation.