REMARKS ON THE SPATIAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
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UWAGI NAD ROZWOJEM PRZESTRZENNO-URBANISTYCZNYM RADOMSKA
REMARKS ON THE SPATIAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF RADOMSKO

Author(s): Mariusz Kulesza
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Historical Geography, Maps / Cartography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: morphology; morphogenesis; Radomsko; spatial transformations

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents stages of Radomsko spatial development, placed on thebackground of history of the town, highlighting the settlement-morphological periods,which have a decisive impact on the town development. The analysis covers town’shistory from the Middle Ages to the present. In terms of settlement-morphologicalprocess, town’s spatial transformations can be divided into three periods: first ‒ the agricultural town (until beginning of the nineteenth century), second ‒ the industrialtown (beginning of the nineteenth century ‒ 1945) and the third ‒ town after World War II. Contemporary Radomsko is a town with a compound urban spatial layout structure,which is a combination of many elements, differing genetically, functionally and byphysiognomy. In the spatial layout can be distinguished relics from different periods ofthe existence of Radomsko. They reflect the stages of its development, starting with themedieval market with traces of market square functioning before the location and theadjoining narrow streets, through the elements of the capitalist city in the forms ofbuildings surrounding the market, and finishing with large housing blocks and single-family housing estates from the socialist times.

  • Issue Year: 16/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 13-33
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish