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Revitalisation as a Contemporary Process of Modelling Urbanising Areas
Revitalisation as a Contemporary Process of Modelling Urbanising Areas

Author(s): Ewa Pałka-Łebek, Maia Meladze, Maria Śmigielska
Subject(s): Governance, Politics and society, Social development, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: revitalisation; urbanizing areas; space modelling process; Georgia;

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays revitalisation is treated as a process which is implemented in areas of a different character, the aim of which is to eliminate barriers that prevent or slow down their broadly understood economic invigoration. It is directed towards comprehensive problem solving. Revitalisation is one of the most important tasks for local policy and is perceived as area modelling (including areas going through the urbanisation process). In various regions of Europe, this process has been taking place for over three decades, while in Poland it is a relatively new one. In our country, revitalization has accelerated, among others, owing to availability of co-financing, provided by a greater access to dedicated EU funds as well as to legal and administrative regulations. Actions supporting the revitalisation process with the use of proven instruments are also on an increase in the countries that want to join the EU structures and/or enter the path of modelling their own economies, adapting them to contemporary socio-economic challenges within their own or available possibilities. Based on the analysis of the course of revitalisation process, with a particular emphasis laid on areas being urbanized in selected EU countries, Poland and Georgia, some general regularities related to the studied actions and to their implementation are determined in the conclusions.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 81-99
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English