<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article addresses the issue of cultural values regarding the need to protect one of the housing estates in Zakopane – known as the Clerks’ Parcels. From the north-west the area is enclosed by Sabały St., from the west by Piłsudskiego St., from the south by Czecha St., and on the east side it borders on the Faluszowy Brook. It was designed and shaped during the 1920s according to the project of the renowned architect, Karol Stryjeński. The Clerks’ Parcels area is not merely a defined, consciously shaped urban layout, but also culturally significant objects listed in the heritage register and entered in the district monument records. In the opinion of the authors of this article, the area deserves to be under a statutory form of protection, namely listed in the immovable monument register of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, which would safeguard that space against degradation and cultural annihilation.</p></abstract>

This article addresses the issue of cultural values regarding the need to protect one of the housing estates in Zakopane – known as the Clerks’ Parcels. From the north-west the area is enclosed by Sabały St., from the west by Piłsudskiego St., from the south by Czecha St., and on the east side it borders on the Faluszowy Brook. It was designed and shaped during the 1920s according to the project of the renowned architect, Karol Stryjeński. The Clerks’ Parcels area is not merely a defined, consciously shaped urban layout, but also culturally significant objects listed in the heritage register and entered in the district monument records. In the opinion of the authors of this article, the area deserves to be under a statutory form of protection, namely listed in the immovable monument register of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, which would safeguard that space against degradation and cultural annihilation.

Zakopane – in Defence of Cultural Landscape – Clerks’ Parcels

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This article addresses the issue of cultural values regarding the need to protect one of the housing estates in Zakopane – known as the Clerks’ Parcels. From...

Zakopane – in Defence of Cultural Landscape – Clerks’ Parcels

Published Online: May 21, 2020

Page range: 51 - 59

Received: Jun 28, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.18.099.8794

Keywords
Zakopane, Clerks’ Parcels, urban layout of Zakopane

© 2020 Kazimierz Kuśnierz et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Zakopane – in Defence of Cultural Landscape – Clerks’ Parcels

Published Online: May 21, 2020

Page range: 51 - 59

Received: Jun 28, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.18.099.8794

KeywordsZakopane, Clerks’ Parcels, urban layout of Zakopane

© 2020 Kazimierz Kuśnierz et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
Zakopane, Clerks’ Parcels, urban layout of Zakopane