Architectural heritage is a substantial component of every nation’s culture, on both a national and local level. Each piece of architecture has its...

The essence of urban design is the transformation of the environment in a way that maximizes the quality of human life. The tools to achieve this goal must cope with the complexity of natural and urbanized spaces, and designers use them to anticipate future environmental states. The article presents theoretical considerations, supplemented by the practical implementation of the area in the Swarzędz community, on the relationship between the organization of urban design in the context of multi-level integration (planning, design) and the emergence of a high-quality urban environment. This process requires controlling many parallel threads between which there are dynamic changes in the relationship - the holarchy.

This paper discusses the issues of sustainability in the context of the relationship between the city and suburban areas. As a critical...

Participation in spatial planning has specific origins rooted in the ideology that in the past was responsible for inhuman actions and large-scale social manipulations. This article is an account on participation, written in the context of over twenty years of experience in actively introducing participatory techniques into various planning procedures. The original assumptions about making spatial planning a matter of importance to local communities had to collide with the reality determined both by the authorities and by individual and collective interests. The attempt to reorient the paradigm of social participation is aimed at preserving many of its positive features.