<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article aims to identify areas of historical, cultural, and landscape values that are located in the suburban area of Warsaw and which may play an essential role in stabilizing the urban ecosystem of Warsaw in the future. Since it turns out that the most effective form of preserving these values is to take them under legal protection, the article shows good and bad practices in this area, identifying the most significant threats and indicating opportunities and scenarios worth considering for the future. Finally, the purpose of the article is to draw attention to the importance of spatial and scenic connections, emphasizing the importance of the surrounding landscape, which was once an immanent feature of, e.g. suburban estates. The hypothesis is that in the face of progressing climate change and melting natural resources, it is worth paying attention to the importance of all urban ecosystem elements, even smaller ones, because they are a component of a larger whole and are required for ecological balance. Existing resources should be strengthened and protected, and new places for protection should be sought. Such sites may be the former foregrounds, the immediate surroundings of monuments, which in the past functioned as larger compositions and should be protected as such.</p></abstract>

The article aims to identify areas of historical, cultural, and landscape values that are located in the suburban area of Warsaw and which may play an essential role in stabilizing the urban ecosystem of Warsaw in the future. Since it turns out that the most effective form of preserving these values is to take them under legal protection, the article shows good and bad practices in this area, identifying the most significant threats and indicating opportunities and scenarios worth considering for the future. Finally, the purpose of the article is to draw attention to the importance of spatial and scenic connections, emphasizing the importance of the surrounding landscape, which was once an immanent feature of, e.g. suburban estates. The hypothesis is that in the face of progressing climate change and melting natural resources, it is worth paying attention to the importance of all urban ecosystem elements, even smaller ones, because they are a component of a larger whole and are required for ecological balance. Existing resources should be strengthened and protected, and new places for protection should be sought. Such sites may be the former foregrounds, the immediate surroundings of monuments, which in the past functioned as larger compositions and should be protected as such.

Suburban Areas of Historical Value as an Important Element of the Ecological Buffer of Warsaw

Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Architectura

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The article aims to identify areas of historical, cultural, and landscape values that are located in the suburban area of Warsaw and which may play an...

Suburban Areas of Historical Value as an Important Element of the Ecological Buffer of Warsaw

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 27 - 35

Received: Oct 23, 2020

Accepted: Nov 29, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22630/aspa.2020.19.4.35

Keywords
suburbs, Warsaw, historic landscape, cultural landscape, natural landscape, climate change

© 2020 Justyna Zdunek-Wielgołaska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Suburban Areas of Historical Value as an Important Element of the Ecological Buffer of Warsaw

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 27 - 35

Received: Oct 23, 2020

Accepted: Nov 29, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22630/aspa.2020.19.4.35

Keywordssuburbs, Warsaw, historic landscape, cultural landscape, natural landscape, climate change

© 2020 Justyna Zdunek-Wielgołaska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Keywords
suburbs, Warsaw, historic landscape, cultural landscape, natural landscape, climate change