<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Residential housing developments built using the prefabricated method during the 1970s undoubtedly have their very own specificities. There exists a wide variety of opinions of the housing developments themselves, as well as of their social condition. The aim of this article is to identify residents’ relationships with the residential housing development territory and to demonstrate the variety of those relationships as conditioned by various types of spatial planning. Various planning elements were taken in to account: building layout, green spaces, and recreational grounds. Residents’ relationships with the territory are conveyed by individual residents’ evaluations of their residential housing development (housing development evaluation, feelings of belonging) and external manifestations of attachment to the development (local involvement). The described topics are demonstrated using the examples of 4 residential housing developments in Warsaw.</p></abstract>

Residential housing developments built using the prefabricated method during the 1970s undoubtedly have their very own specificities. There exists a wide variety of opinions of the housing developments themselves, as well as of their social condition. The aim of this article is to identify residents’ relationships with the residential housing development territory and to demonstrate the variety of those relationships as conditioned by various types of spatial planning. Various planning elements were taken in to account: building layout, green spaces, and recreational grounds. Residents’ relationships with the territory are conveyed by individual residents’ evaluations of their residential housing development (housing development evaluation, feelings of belonging) and external manifestations of attachment to the development (local involvement). The described topics are demonstrated using the examples of 4 residential housing developments in Warsaw.

Residents’ Relationship with the Territory and the Spatial Planning of Residential Housing Developments

Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies Department of Urban Geography and Spatial Organisation

Miscellanea Geographica

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Residential housing developments built using the prefabricated method during the 1970s undoubtedly have their very own specificities. There exists a wide...

Residents’ Relationship with the Territory and the Spatial Planning of Residential Housing Developments

Published Online: Nov 25, 2018

Page range: 265 - 272

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2010-0025

Keywords
relationship with territory, residential housing development, spatial planning in residential housing developments

© 2010 Magdalena Fuhrmann, published by Sciendo

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

Residents’ Relationship with the Territory and the Spatial Planning of Residential Housing Developments

Published Online: Nov 25, 2018

Page range: 265 - 272

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2010-0025

Keywordsrelationship with territory, residential housing development, spatial planning in residential housing developments

© 2010 Magdalena Fuhrmann, published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
relationship with territory, residential housing development, spatial planning in residential housing developments