Policies and Prospects of Urban Redevelopment in Poland

Redevelopment of Urban Village in Shenzhen

DEDICATION To my parents and family for their endless love and support. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to Kathleen Lugosch and Stephen Schreiber for their academic advices and kind help. Urban Villages are a specific phenomenon raised in modern China due to the high-speed economic development and urbanization in recent three decades. And there are social, economic, cultural and architectural ...

Foreword: Recent Developments in Urban Redevelopment

“Assessment of employment policies in Poland”

Employment and unemployment in the Central East European countries are a major concern in the process of integration of those countries into the European Union. Hence, the proposal of policies for employment is a controversial issue. The existence of opposing conceptual frameworks is the main cause of this divergence. Since the debate is still open and no definite conclusions have yet been reac...

Reversing urban decay: brownfield redevelopment and environmental health.

While the United States government concentrates more of its political and financial resources on fighting terrorism, the continuing decay of older cities and industrial suburbs has fallen far down on the national political priority agenda. An exception is the redevelopment of so-called brownfields, which are abandoned, idled, or underutilized factories, railroad yards, bus stations, garages, el...

Empirical analysis of urban transport demand of young people and prospects of sustainable transport policies

In this paper, some considerations on the reform of local public transport are presented. In the light of new exigencies, the hope is that the adoption of competitive manoeuvres, although limited, brings about economic advantages and appreciable qualitative improvements of transport services. This should be possible due to new entrants on the market that could favour the implementation of innov...