The increasing interest in the strategic urban planning observed worldwide is connected with the development of tools of urban revitalisation and engagement of local authorities into concerted dialogue with the key stakeholders and actors, taking into account theirs role in the implementation process. The Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities, approved 24 May 2007, by the Member States Ministers responsible for Urban Development, underlines the role of the urban strategic planning, among others strengthening the role of the coordination and spatial focus of use of funds by public and private sector player, as well as forming of coalitions or partnerships as the source of financing for urban redevelopment. The integrated redevelopment policies are considered the best way for solving the current urban problems, i.e. for improving the quality of life and creating the lively, sustainable and resilient urban scapes. The paper analyses the case study of the redevelopment project called 'the New City Centre', which is currently realised in Lodz, Poland, connected with the construction of the new underground railway station and cross town rail line allowing for introduction of fast speed railway junction Warsaw - Wroclaw and its passage through Lodz. The paper addresses the assessment of the process constituting the project framework in terms of strategic planning, verifying the presence of main features present in this sort of enterprises with the aim to assess and improve the redevelopment strategy. The author of the paper is engaged in few students projects realised for the unit managing the redevelopment, in this way providing some professional support and expertise. The revitalisation processes of few European cities central districts of similar characteristics are examined as reference cases.
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