TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of Property Rights and Ownership on the Development of Warsaw’s Contemporary City Centre
AU - Górczyńska, Magdalena
AU - Sleszynski, Przemyslaw
AU - Niedzielski, Michael A.
PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - The paper raises the problem of the impact of unregulated property and ownership rights on the development of the city centre. It applies to Warsaw as a post-socialist city that has recorded fast economic growth since the country’s communist regime collapsed in 1989. We follow the course of changes in the city centre of Warsaw, in particular, those pertaining to land use and high-rise buildings for office use as investments that encounter difficulties under the unregulated status of construction sites and lack of clear regulations for private property restitution that was nationalized under socialism. To describe and explain the difficulties, we provide data showing the location of large companies and office buildings, and examples of conflicts as well. Unregulated ownership issues and property rights weigh on Warsaw’s city centre, now vastly dispersing and gravitating westwards, and prevent the district from rational and effective development.
AB - The paper raises the problem of the impact of unregulated property and ownership rights on the development of the city centre. It applies to Warsaw as a post-socialist city that has recorded fast economic growth since the country’s communist regime collapsed in 1989. We follow the course of changes in the city centre of Warsaw, in particular, those pertaining to land use and high-rise buildings for office use as investments that encounter difficulties under the unregulated status of construction sites and lack of clear regulations for private property restitution that was nationalized under socialism. To describe and explain the difficulties, we provide data showing the location of large companies and office buildings, and examples of conflicts as well. Unregulated ownership issues and property rights weigh on Warsaw’s city centre, now vastly dispersing and gravitating westwards, and prevent the district from rational and effective development.
KW - Ownership
KW - Warsaw
KW - office space
KW - post-socialist city
KW - property restitution
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09654313.2018.1531975
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/impact-property-rights-ownership-development-warsaws-ccntemporary-city-centre
U2 - 10.1080/09654313.2018.1531975
DO - 10.1080/09654313.2018.1531975
M3 - Article
SN - 0965-4313
VL - 27
SP - 160
EP - 180
JO - European Planning Studies
JF - European Planning Studies
IS - 1
ER -