Abstract
Contemporary urbanists and architects are faced with the problem of adapting degraded post-communist neighbourhoods to the current needs of their inhabitants. Most of those housing estates need rehabilitation which is understood as an aspiration for reconstruction of settlement’s range as a human-friendly environment and regain it’s lost values. A CPTED strategy could be very helpful to define guidelines for the rehabilitation. Based on Crime Prevention through Environmental Design strategy the features of space like natural surveillance, space clarity, territoriality, the feeling of responsibility for public space and management can affect it’s quality. These aspects were very useful set of criteria for the author to try to express guidelines for the rehabilitation of the housing estate in Pabianice. Methods used in the research included physical inventory of the neighbourhood and questionnaire survey among the sample of 100 inhabitants of the analysed area. Conclusions from the use of both mentioned methods are well supplementing each other and are pointing the most severe spatil and social problems in the area. This how the environment of the housing estate looks like in the eyes of it’s inhabitants and visitors were crucial while shaping guidelines for rehabilitation
Highlights
Neighbourhoods built of blocks of flats are very common in almost every Polish city or town
One of such post-communist housing estates is the subject of this analysis, which aims to present spatial development of the neighbourhood over the years and try to determine guidelines for its rehabilitation
Based on the CPTED strategy, the following features of space can affect its quality: – natural surveillance, – space clarity, – territoriality, – the feeling of responsibility for public space, – management (Mączka 2012; Wieteska-Rosiak 2014). All these above-mentioned aspects can be a useful set of criteria during a physical inventory of the area or a survey, both of which are methods used by the author to analyse spatial structure and quality of life in the neighbourhood and draw conclusions
Summary
Neighbourhoods built of blocks of flats are very common in almost every Polish city or town. They are inhabited by millions of people of different wealth or social status and living in such dwellings is standard in Poland. These settlements – the legacy of communism – have different infrastructures and functional programmes which stems from the economical conditions that change over the years. The national industry, have mostly degraded after the fall of some national factories These processes, which contributed to the lack of workplaces, combined with the impossibility to frequently change a place of living, created pathological socio-spatial structures. Contemporary urbanists and architects are faced with adapting these neighbourhoods to the needs of their inhabitants and creating places with favourable living conditions
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