Krakow – A City Between Tradition and Modernity

The definition of the concept of the city forces us to think not only about the purpose of building and expanding the city, but also about the need to search for new ideas, to think about the benefits they should bring to the quality of the space and the quality of the newly created architecture in it. Not only in the context of climatic threats and challenges to the protection of natural environmental resources, there is a need to translate the quality of space into the needs of the modern and future user of the city, the integration of the new and transformed built environment in accordance with the spirit and identity of the city, with the nature of man and his natural earthly surroundings.

The purpose of this work is to demonstrate, based on self-reflection resulting from the analysis of the preliminary phase of the development of the Local Spatial Plan for the New Town in Krakow, the absence in the arrangements proposed in it of comprehensible principles of urban order, creating “fields of gravity” integrating spaces around them, that is, elements crystallizing the layout of the new district of the city creating at the same time threads of connections between tradition, legacy and experience of Krakow’s history.