Within Poland, there are many localities denoted as small towns. From the historical point of view, political, social and economic needs were always the prime power that impacted the foundation of towns. In order to receive the status of a town, it was necessary to initiate the procedures aiming at receiving a particular location and special municipal rights, and to get a right to perform particular administration functions. There were several factors considered to be prime power generating the creation of such units within a settlement network; those factors were: town’s defences, trade, agricultural development (private towns), industrial development, large-scale exploitation of raw materials, formation of large interchanges, spa and recreational qualities of the region where a particular town was situated. Depending on the political situation and economic climate, the position of those towns within the settlement network underwent various changes. Urbanization processes were decisive. They strongly stimulated the development, and when they ceased, the stagnation occurred and, in some case, it caused such towns to move back and to become demoted to the level of a village. Lipnica Murowana was located in the 14th century according to the German Magdeburg Law and possessed the municipal rights for more than ...
The objective of his paper is to represent, based on the example of one of the Cracow mounds, those land objects within a spatial structure and Poland’s cultural landscape. Those large engineering earthen structures are artificially raised geometric bodies. The large and high moulds located on ground elevations constitute architectural dominants and are beauty spots, whereas the smaller ones are classified as small structural forms. For the purpose of this paper, the Józef Piłsudski Mound was chosen as an example. It is situated on the Sowiniec Hill in the ‘Wolski Wood’ Park (in Polish ‘Las Wolski’) in Cracow. This object was selected owing to the fact that, recently, Poland celebrated the 90th anniversary of regaining its independence and Mar-shall Józef Piłsudski rendered considerable service to the independence fight and had strong ties with Cracow. This Mound having three names: The Independence Mound, The Piłsudski Mound, and The Grave of Graves is one of the Cracow four largest earthen monuments. It is also the youngest mould since it was built during the inter-war period in the twentieth century. The Mound is an architectural object. Thus, prior to beginning with the building works, a detailed design was developed. One of ...
Local plans are the basic legal acts used to execute the spatial policy within a commune area. This execution results in some legal, economic, environmental, and social changes. A great part of those changes requires some new spatial development plans to be agreed. The herby work includes the legal regulations concerning local plans of spatial development, their functions, goals and the results of those plans entering into force. The importance of local spatial development plans in shaping the spatial structure of rural areas is also considered in this work. The research showed what are the results of adopting the local spatial development plans in rural areas. The changes in the spatial structure of Rakowiec settlement, placed within the area of Kwidzyn commune, were taken as the basis for the research. ...
Land consolidations are the only agricultural management procedures which allow for positive changes in land spatial structure in a large area in a short time. Very large needs for implementation of this kind of works in Poland, in conjunction with a limited amount of funds available for this purpose, indicates the need to develop methods which in a precise way can identify areas where the implementation of land consolidation works is necessary and where this procedure can give the best results. The task of coordinating and programming agricultural management works belongs to the regional governments.Within this task, the Marshal Office of Malopolska Region commissioned the authors of this article prepares an expertise called: "Analysis of the spatial structure of the rural areas of Malopolska province in order to identifying the areas eligible to implement the land consolidation work". The aim of this study was to present for an individual registration precincts of Malopolska province, relevant information in the process of programming and preparation the agricultural management works. The results of analyzes which were made in the expertise have been published on the portal of the Spatial Infrastructure Information of Malopolska (miip.geomalopolska.pl).The aim of this paper is to present ...
