A Vision of Sustainability, or Spatial Chaos? Polish Spatial Planning and Arrangement Policy Dilemmas in Contemporary Theory, Legislation and Practice

摘要

Since the unprecedented transformation of political system almost 20 years ago and the accession to the European Union in 2004, Poland has neither implemented the policy of urban sustainability nor a coherent system of spatial planning and decision making, especially in case of the most important areas: main cities and their surroundings. The former, relatively strict, spatial planning theory and practice has been deliberately regarded as a communist anachronism and rejected, but not replaced by any comprehensive system, which could guarantee a harmonious and sustainable development, especially of most dynamic polish cities in following years of rapid general economic growth and individual welfare rise to come.