Foreword
| dc.contributor.author | Dziekoński, Olgierd | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-21T11:23:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-21T11:23:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | en |
| dc.description | Book of proceedings: Urban change : The prospect of transformation | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Dear organizers, lecturers and participants of the european urban summer schools, I would like to thank you for inviting me to attend the European Urban Summer School in Wrocław, which is co-organised by the UN-Habitat, the Faculty of Architecture of the Wrocław University of Technology and the Assosciation of European Schools of Planning. I do welcome the fact that that this interesting event will bring together young urban planners from all across Europe. I very much regret that I will not be able to take part at this meeting but I would like to seize this opportunity and get some of my comments across to all those who are involved in this event. The challenges regarding urbanisation in Europe and in the world as a whole require an international discussion. The activitities and good practices, attained by local communities which thanks to decentralisation of powers can get actively involved in spatial planning and management processes, are worthy and need to be disseminated. Urbanisation in countries which are subjected to rapid social and economic changes creates new opportunities. Urban sprawl is not an adverse phenomena in itself. It is an inevitable trend in transition countries where people are eager to afford appropriate housing standards. So it can serve as an opportunity to build new towns, new urbanisation with high | |
| dc.description.version | published version | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-83-7493-570-8 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1883 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Book of proceedings: Urban change : The prospect of transformation | en |
| dc.title | Foreword | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |