Wpływ procesu transformacji na kształtowanie środowiska mieszkaniowego w Polsce

The topic of this paper is to present the influence of the economic system transformation on the housing environment. Determiners of the development of housing architecture and environment belong to four general groups: architectural, town-planning, economic and legal as well as social and cultural. They are all connected, they enter various relationships and the degree of their influence on changes in architecture is differentiated. Some of them are very important determinants for the field of housing environment and these are connected with history and culture. Some others stimulate progress in the processes in architecture. Still others hamper the progress and slow down the changes. During 20 years of the process of transformation in Poland the built environment has changed and now it offers a new quality and more than before facilities to the inhabitants.