Problemy przeobrażeń architektonicznych krajobrazu okolic Krakowa na przełomie wieków

The Cracow situation in the geographical conditions of Cracow-Częstochowa Jura had a specific influence on its development. Huge variety in landscape and variations in sub regional settlement forms and types of building connected to it, created, over the centuries, a characteristic type of "Jurassic architecture", strongly inscribed into local cultural and building traditions. High transport availability in Cracow as a place of work contributed to the development of existing settlement units. The former country landscape of the area changed unnoticed into a chaotically built suburban zone. In December 1981 a team of Jurassic Landscape Parks was appointed to protect this beautiful region from further devastation. A set of benchmark projects was elaborated in the form of a catalogue "House as a Dream", which was an unprecedented occurrence in this area of the country.