Rewaloryzacja zespołów urbanistycznych

The attention which has been paid for some years now to the problem of protection of natural environment should cover as well what is nearer to modern man and, namely, the town in its already past, and not yet truly historical, aspect. This pertains to the quantitatively large part of the buil-up areas o f towns dating from the turn of the 19th century. A considerable number of urban districts call for technical adaptation to the present- day requirements. Revalorization of urban areas results in their technical, functional environmental and, what is most important, also social improvement. It is due to revalorization that the whole su b standard districts of towns are redeveloped and the differences levelled between the housing conditions in the old built-up areas and the new residential estates. Those transformed urban areas are well f it ted to become particularly attractive in the scale of the whole towns concerned. This results from their situation with regard to the centre of the urban pattern, diversity of the functions exercised by them and the wealth of their architectonic visage. This is particularly valuable in the era of mass architecture and buildings raised with industrial methods. The time of revalorization is near hence the necessity of taking up reparatory work o f organizational, economic, legal and programmatic nature.