Methods of Valorisation of Cultural Heritage in Rural Settlement
Systems: Proposal to Assess the Value of Spatial Layouts Based
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Metody waloryzacji dziedzictwa kulturowego w ruralistycznych układach osadniczych. Propozycja oceny wartości układów przestrzennych na podstawie dotychczasowych opracowań
Methods of Valorisation of Cultural Heritage in Rural Settlement Systems: Proposal to Assess the Value of Spatial Layouts Based on Previous Studies

Author(s): Oskar Kowalczyk
Subject(s): Agriculture, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Instytut Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: ruralism; valorisation; settlement; heritage; Cedry Wielkie; Chochołów; Nowosolna;

Summary/Abstract: The protection of historic rural settlement systems is often only declarative.Throughout the part of the 20th century and in the 21st century, the landscape of the Polishcountryside was influenced by transformations that had a significant impact on itsarchitecture and on the preservation of the values ​​ of rural systems. There is also a problemwith the number of rural layouts under legal protection. There are about 80 examples of ruralsettlement entered in the registers of monuments (0.001% of all items entered in the registers).15 times more urban layouts are protected (1066), which quantitatively exceed the numberof localities with legal urban rights (944), so 1 city has 1.15 of the protected urban layout,while 1 village (and there are 52,471 in Poland) has 0.0015 of the protected rural layout.Due to the present situation, the aim of the study was adopted, which is to prepare a methodthat will allow the evaluation of the historical values ​​ of rural systems. It would enableconservators and planners to clearly define which of the rural systems, as well as theirindividual elements, require preservation, special protection or reconstruction. As part ofthe research, a research method was adopted, consisting in the analysis of the methodologyof valorisation of monuments, landscape, elements of cultural heritage, urban and rurallayouts in order to develop a compilation method of valorisation, which was checked onthree different settlement layouts: Chochołów, Nowosolna and Cedry Wielkie, whichwere inventoried in detail. The summary includes reflections on the need to strengthenthe protection of rural settlement systems and recommendation for making the developedmethod of valorisation of rural systems more detailed.

  • Issue Year: 196/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 33-79
  • Page Count: 47
  • Language: Polish