Cybulska, Magdalena Dziemianowicz, Wojciech
Published in
Miscellanea Geographica
Relations between metropolitan core cities and regional and sub-regional centres are part of a broader discussion on the importance of metropolitan areas for the development of regions. These relations are dealt with in this paper in the context of the growth pole theory. The paper focuses on the migration process in relation to enterprises. By mov...
Małachowski, Aleksander Dąbski, Maciej Wilk, Waldemar
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Miscellanea Geographica
The aim of this work is to verify whether accessibility to public services in city districts of Warsaw, corresponds to real-estate prices. We introduce a new index named the “Urban Services Accessibility Index” (USAI) which compares the availability of public services within districts of a city in three dimensions: access to healthcare, access to e...
De Rosa, Annamaria Silvana Dryjanska, Laura
This paper discusses the influence of social representations of a destination city on the motivation and development of individual mobility patterns, using questionnaires with a projective technique and guided interviews. The participants were 60 skilled expatriates in two different European capital cities: Italians residing in Warsaw and Poles res...
Zemla, Kinga
“The right to one’s home” is a project that raises the issue of affordable housing, challenging this broad concept both in universal terms and later applied to specific condition of a site located in Warsaw, Poland. Beside the obviously economic dimension, affordability stretches out to urban politics by proposing new power relations and redefining...
Alviti, Roberta
Among the canovacci and the argomenti of the comici dell’arte who worked at the court of Augustus III of Saxony, printed between 1748-1756 in Dresde and Warsaw, it is possible to find some dramatic material derived from several Spanish pieces of the Golden Age, such as Las mocedades de Bernardo del Carpio, No puede ser, La dama duende, Antes que to...
Gillabert, Matthieu
Le 5e Festival mondial de la jeunesse et des étudiants de Varsovie (1955) compte parmi les plus fréquentées des treize éditions de la Guerre froide. Profitant d’une accalmie géopolitique tout en étant confronté à la fin du stalinisme, il attire des participants du monde entier. Cette étude multiscalaire montre comment cet événement est à la fois un...
Barczyk, Alina
In 1757 the palace at Miodowa St. (the registration of a mortgage in the central mortgage register no. 484) became the property of Jan Karol Mniszech (died 1759), who rebuilt it. The transformations included, among others, delivery to the main body the side wing, located along Kapitulna St. The location of the palace at the representative stage des...
Barczyk, Alina
The raising of the residence of Józef Wandalin Mniszech (1670-1747) in Senatorska Street was one of the major constructing projects in Warsaw in the 1720s. The office of the Grand Marshal of the Crown held by Mniszech, the palace’s owner, stipulated the necessity to create ceremonial space. The genesis and importance of extremely novel architectura...
Budenbender, Mirjam; Aalbers, Manuel B; 87619;
© 2019 Urban Research Publications Limited This article studies the development of Warsaw's Służewiec neighbourhood, Poland's largest business district, as a case of real estate financialization. We argue that the neighbourhood's chaotic ‘de-contextualized’ growth was shaped by Poland's semi-peripheral position in the global economy on the one hand...
Bladyniec, T.
Published in
Archives of Civil Engineering
In 1875 a steel railway bridge was built in northern Warsaw. It had seven spans of 66.22 m and two spans of 15.24 m. In 1908 the second railway bridge was built downstream of the older one. The spacing of supports and spans were the same as in the older bridge. During World War I, both bridges were blown up and then rebuilt, first temporarily and t...
