Polish Cities

Author : Ward, Philip
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poland
ISBN : 1455610607

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Polish Cities by Ward, Philip Pdf

Author : Izabela Jonek-Kowalska,Radosław Wolniak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000935394

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Smart Cities in Poland by Izabela Jonek-Kowalska,Radosław Wolniak Pdf

This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities. The Smart City concept has been gaining popularity in recent years, with supporters considering it to be an effective tool to improve the quality of life of the city’s residents. In turn, opponents argue that it is a source of imbalance and claim that it escalates the problems of social and economic exclusion. This book, therefore, assesses the quality of life and its unsustainability in Central and Eastern European cities within the context of the Smart City concept and from the perspective of key areas of sustainable development. Using case studies of selected cities in Central and Eastern Europe and representative surveysof Polish cities, this book illustrates the process of creating smart cities and their impact on improving the quality of life of citizens. Specifically, this book investigates the conditions that a Smart City has to meet to become sustainable, how the Smart City concept can support the improvement of the residents’ quality of life and how Central and Eastern European countries create smartcity solutions. Containing both theoretical and practical content, this book will be of relevance to researchers and students interested in smart cities and urban planning, as well as city authorities and city stakeholders who are planning to implement the Smart City concept.

Author : Filip Springer
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781632061164

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History of a Disappearance by Filip Springer Pdf

Lying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, and World War I. After Stalin’s post-World War II redrawing of Poland’s borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced persons from all over Poland and a new center of the Eastern Bloc’s uranium-mining industry. Decades of neglect and environmental degradation led to the town being declared uninhabitable, and the population was evacuated. Today, it exists only in ruins, with barely a hundred people living on the unstable ground above its collapsing mines. In this collection of unsparing and insightful reportage, the renowned journalist, photographer, and architecture critic Filip Springer rediscovers this tiny town’s history. Digging beyond the village’s mythic foundations and the great wars and world leaders that shaped it, Springer catalogs the lost human elements: the long-departed tailor and deceased shopkeeper; the parties, now silenced, that used to fill the streets with shouts and laughter; and the once-beautiful cemetery, with gravestones upended by tractors and human bones scattered by dogs. In Miedzianka, Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present day.

Author : Gershon David Hundert
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421436272

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The Jews in a Polish Private Town by Gershon David Hundert Pdf

Winner of the Montreal Jewish Public Library's J. I. Segal Prize Originally published in 1991. In the eighteenth century, more than half of the world's Jewish population lived in Polish private villages and towns owned by magnate-aristocrats. Furthermore, roughly half of Poland's entire urban population was Jewish. Thus, the study of Jews in private Polish towns is central to both Jewish history and to the history of Poland-Lithuania. The Jews in a Polish Private Town seeks to investigate the social, economic, and political history of Jews in Opatów, a private Polish town, in the context of an increasing power and influence of private towns at the expense of the Polish crown and gentry in the eighteenth century. Hundert recovers an important community from historical obscurity by providing a balanced perspective on the Jewish experience in the Polish Commonwealth and by describing the special dimensions of Jewish life in a private town.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264188914

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Higher Education in Regional and City Development: Wroclaw, Poland 2012 by OECD Pdf

This publication explores a range of helpful policy measures and institutional reforms to mobilise higher education for regional development.

Author : Anna Visvizi,Raquel Perez del Hoyo
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780323859189

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Smart Cities and the UN SDGs by Anna Visvizi,Raquel Perez del Hoyo Pdf

Smart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explored include digital governance, e-democracy, health care access, public-private partnerships, well-being, and more. Examining smart cities concepts, tools, strategies, and obstacles and their applicability to sustainability, the book exposes key structural problems that cities face and how the imperative of sustainability can bypass them. It shows how smart city technological innovation can boost citizens' well-being, serving as a key reference for those seeking to make sense of the issues and challenges of smart cities and SDGs. Includes numerous case studies from around the world Features interdisciplinary insights from academic and practitioner experts Offers an extensive literature review

Author : Philip Ward
Publisher : Oleander Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0906672724

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Polish Cities by Philip Ward Pdf

Author : Thierry Burger-Helmchen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789535100690

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Entrepreneurship by Thierry Burger-Helmchen Pdf

What are the differences between an entrepreneur and a manager? According to Schumpeter, the main difference lies in the entrepreneur's ideas, creativity, and vision of the world. These differences enable him to create new combinations, to change existing business models, and to innovate. Those innovations can take several forms: products, processes, and organizations to name a few. In this book, an array of international researchers take a look at the visions and actions of innovative entrepreneurs to be at the source of new ideas and to foster new relationships between different actors to change the existing business models.

Author : Linda L. Lowry
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2878 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483368962

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The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism by Linda L. Lowry Pdf

Taking a global and multidisciplinary approach, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism brings together a team of international scholars to examine the travel and tourism industry, which is expected to grow at an annual rate of four percent for the next decade. In more than 500 entries spanning four comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia examines the business of tourism around the world paying particular attention to the social, economic, environmental, and policy issues at play. The book examines global, regional, national, and local issues including transportation, infrastructure, the environment, and business promotion. By looking at travel trends and countries large and small, the Encyclopedia analyses a wide variety of challenges and opportunities facing the industry. In taking a comprehensive and global approach, the Encyclopedia approaches the field of travel and tourism through the numerous disciplines it reaches, including the traditional tourism administration curriculum within schools of business and management, economics, public policy, as well as social science disciplines such as the anthropology and sociology. Key features include: More than 500 entries authored and signed by key academics in the field Entries on individual countries that details the health of the tourism industry, policy and planning approaches, promotion efforts, and primary tourism draws. Additional entries look at major cities and popular destinations Coverage of travel trends such as culinary tourism, wine tourism, agritourism, ecotourism, geotourism, slow tourism, heritage and cultural-based tourism, sustainable tourism, and recreation-based tourism Cross-references and further readings A Reader’s Guide grouping articles by disciplinary areas and broad themes

Author : Harry W. Richardson,Chang Woon Nam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136162091

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Shrinking Cities by Harry W. Richardson,Chang Woon Nam Pdf

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards. The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale – from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a whole may be a future trend. Also addressed in this volume is the question of whether urban shrinkage policies are necessary or effective. The book comprises four parts: world or regional issues (with reference to the European Union and Latin America); national case studies (the United States, India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Romania and Estonia); city case studies (Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Naples, Belfast and Halle); and broad issues such as the environmental consequences of shrinking cities. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the fields of urban studies, economic geography and public policy.

Author : Albertina Dias,Bror Salmelin,David Pereira,Miguel Sales Dias
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319671017

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Modeling Innovation Sustainability and Technologies by Albertina Dias,Bror Salmelin,David Pereira,Miguel Sales Dias Pdf

This book gathers a diverse range of novel research on modeling innovation policies for sustainable economic development, based on a selection of papers from a conference on modeling innovation systems and technologies (MIST). It aims at encouraging interdisciplinary and comparative approaches, bringing together researchers and professionals interested in sustainable economic, technological development and open innovation, as well as their dissemination and practical application. The respective contributions explore a variety of topics and cases, including regional innovation policy, the effects of open innovation on firms, innovation and sustainability in tourism, and the use of information and communication technologies. All chapters share a strong focus on new research and innovation methodologies, in keeping with the Experimentation and Application Research (EAR) and Open Innovation 2.0 principles.

Author : Zbigniew Zuziak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016934684

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Managing Historic Cities by Zbigniew Zuziak Pdf

Attention is given to heritage management and planning; instruments of urban regeneration and land use control; and case studies of Krakøw, Lødz, Glasgow, Cardiff, and the London docklands.

Author : Jan Fellerer,Robert Pyrah
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863244

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Lviv – Wrocław, Cities in Parallel? by Jan Fellerer,Robert Pyrah Pdf

After World War II, Europe witnessed the massive redrawing of national borders and the efforts to make the population fit those new borders. As a consequence of these forced changes, both Lviv and Wrocław went through cataclysmic changes in population and culture. Assertively Polish prewar Lwów became Soviet Lvov, and then, after 1991, it became assertively Ukrainian Lviv. Breslau, the third largest city in Germany before 1945, was in turn "recovered" by communist Poland as Wrocław. Practically the entire population of Breslau was replaced, and Lwów's demography too was dramatically restructured: many Polish inhabitants migrated to Wrocław and most Jews perished or went into exile. The forced migration of these groups incorporated new myths and the construction of official memory projects. The chapters in this edited book compare the two cities by focusing on lived experiences and "bottom-up" historical processes. Their sources and methods are those of micro-history and include oral testimonies, memoirs, direct observation and questionnaires, examples of popular culture, and media pieces. The essays explore many manifestations of the two sides of the same coin—loss on the one hand, gain on the other—in two cities that, as a result of the political reality of the time, are complementary.

Author : Kate A. Furlong
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617846748

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Poland by Kate A. Furlong Pdf

Brief text explores the history, geography, government, cities, recreation, and people of Poland.

Author : Peter Whitewood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350238961

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The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy by Peter Whitewood Pdf

This detailed study traces the history of the Soviet-Polish War (1919-20), the first major international clash between the forces of communism and anti-communism, and the impact this had on Soviet Russia in the years that followed. It reflects upon how the Bolsheviks fought not only to defend the fledgling Soviet state, but also to bring the revolution to Europe. Peter Whitewood shows that while the Red Army's rapid drive to the gates of Warsaw in summer 1920 raised great hopes for world revolution, the subsequent collapse of the offensive had a more striking result. The Soviet military and political leadership drew the mistaken conclusion that they had not been defeated by the Polish Army, but by the forces of the capitalist world – Britain and France – who were perceived as having directed the war behind-the-scenes. They were taken aback by the strength of the forces of counterrevolution and convinced they had been overcome by the capitalist powers. The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy reveals that – in the aftermath of the catastrophe at Warsaw –Lenin, Stalin and other senior Bolsheviks were convinced that another war against Poland and its capitalist backers was inevitable with this perpetual fear of war shaping the evolution of the early Soviet state. It also further encouraged the creation of a centralised and repressive one-party state and provided a powerful rationale for the breakneck industrialisation of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1920s. The Soviet leadership's central preoccupation in the 1930s was Nazi Germany; this book convincingly argues that Bolshevik perceptions of Poland and the capitalist world in the decade before were given as much significance and were ultimately crucial to the rise of Stalinism.