Types of suburbs in post-socialist Poland and their potential for creating public spaces |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland;2. National Institute for Spatial Policy and Housing, Warsaw, Poland;3. Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland;1. Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University, 55 Park Place Suite 849D, Atlanta, GA 30302, United States;2. Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, MSD Building Room 323, Masson Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;3. Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 11 Arts Link, AS1 #03-09, 117573, Singapore;4. ETH Zürich Future Cities Laboratory, 1 Create Way, CREATE Tower #06-01, Singapore 138602;5. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, 178902, Singapore;1. University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-724 Olsztyn, ul. Oczapowskiego 4, Poland;2. Gmina Dywity Office, 11-001 Dywity, ul. Olsztyńska 32, Poland |
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| Abstract: | The aim of this article is to distinguish types of the suburbs that are typical for post-socialist European countries. The typology organizes the variety of suburban forms according to the degree to which they favour the creation of public spaces, or the access to such spaces in the city or nearby town. A new typology is based on six criteria: (1) the level of neighbourhood (spatial scale), (2) the time when the neighbourhood was erected, (3) spatial interaction with the nearest town/city, (4) the prevailing type of investment, (5) street layout, (6) access to the city centre by public transport. Suburbs are diversified in terms of their potential for the establishment of public spaces. It has been proved that individual housing in the form of neighbourhoods which are planned, densely populated and based on street grid is the most preferred type from the perspective of building social capital. The typology was developed for Warsaw Metropolitan Region, although it may be applied also in the research of post-socialist countries other than Poland and urban regions within them. |
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