Open AccessZmiany struktury przestrzennej obszaru Zabłocia w Krakowie objętego lokalnym programem rewitalizacji
Author(s) -
Katarzyna Świerczewska-Pietras
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
prace komisji geografii przemysłu polskiego towarzystwa geograficznego
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2449-903X
pISSN - 2080-1653
DOI - 10.24917/20801653.18.6
Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , politics , economic history , industrial area , economy , political science , agricultural economics , geography , history , economics , environmental protection , law , computer science , programming language
Cracow’s area of Zabłocie, covered by the local revitalization programme, was formed during the development of industrial plants in 18 th and 19 th century. The local business activities included the Factory of Nets, Furniture, Ferrum Constructions and Ornament Goods owned by Józef Gorecki, whose products, even today, embellish the interiors of the Old Theater, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, or the Cracow’s Soap Factory owned by Czesław Śmiechowski (currently Miraculum), which was the largest plant of this type in Krakow. The area of Zabłocie also housed the city’s largest distillery plant, “Cracow Vodkas”, as well as the Polish Healthy Bread Manufacture “Ziarno”. After the Second World War the post-industrial Zabłocie changed its production profile from technically simple to technologically advanced goods. Gorecki’s factory was replaced with “Telpod”, which, following political transitions of the 1990’s, was declared bankrupt. During the political transformation as well as at the end of the nineties, Zabłocie became “the forgotten” area of Kraków. The ongoing deterioration of post-industrial buildings as well as spacial and infrastructural chaos influenced the deepening processes of the area’s functional structure within the territory of the city. It was only the municipality, which objective was to bring the district out of crisis and which based its politics on passing of both local plan of spacial economy and local revitalization programme, that generated investors’ interest in the area. Currently Zabłocie is undergoing revitalization works on post-industrial buildings which, thanks to new functions, can be again incorporated into the area’s spacial structure. With regard to the above, the objective of this essay is to present structural changes which the district has undergone over the course of recent years and which have significantly influenced its functional transition from post-industrial to the one oriented on development of small and medium enterprises sector and housing.