Zrównoważony rozwój a polityka miejska. Między utopią a rzeczywistością
Sustainable development and urban policy. Between utopia and reality

Summary/Abstract: The idea of sustainable development leads us to re-look at the city, sometimes invent it again. It pretends to transform the sphere of human activities and is based on the new human relationships with the surrounding space. How to organize public life zone in such a way as to ensure their long duration, reasonably taking advantage of available resources? How to create a friendly urban space, which is actively involved all the social classes and encourages them to act for the common good? What is the modern ideal city? This article depicts the urban space through the prism of political ideology. The policy is not only acting but also elaborate earlier discourse. Political practice and the program operates an another system of representation and different nomenclature. What was the reason that it was sustainable development, rather than another concept became the dominant instrument of legitimizing political activities at the local level? The article refers specifically to the contradictions of the same idea: on the one hand, for the process of socio-economic development and appealing to its dynamics, on the other hand, introducing the opposite concept of balance and stability.

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