<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Nowadays the protection of historic urban layouts poses one of the greatest challenges in the field of cultural heritage protection. Even if this protection functions properly in large historic cities, it is sadly insufficient in smaller towns. The testimony to the latter claim is seen in deteriorating centres of small historic towns. Such degradation is a consequence of e.g. inappropriate investments disturbing their historic urban composition, which, in turn, demonstrates insufficient conservation protection. This article presents an analysis of selected medieval towns from Lesser Poland, with attention to both the state of preservation of their historic urban structure and the current form of its protection. Two towns (Nowy Targ, Skawina) are discussed in more detail.</p></abstract>

Nowadays the protection of historic urban layouts poses one of the greatest challenges in the field of cultural heritage protection. Even if this protection functions properly in large historic cities, it is sadly insufficient in smaller towns. The testimony to the latter claim is seen in deteriorating centres of small historic towns. Such degradation is a consequence of e.g. inappropriate investments disturbing their historic urban composition, which, in turn, demonstrates insufficient conservation protection. This article presents an analysis of selected medieval towns from Lesser Poland, with attention to both the state of preservation of their historic urban structure and the current form of its protection. Two towns (Nowy Targ, Skawina) are discussed in more detail.

Issues with Protecting Medieval Urban Layouts from Selected Example Towns in Lesser Poland

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Nowadays the protection of historic urban layouts poses one of the greatest challenges in the field of cultural heritage protection. Even if this protection...

Issues with Protecting Medieval Urban Layouts from Selected Example Towns in Lesser Poland

Published Online: May 16, 2020

Page range: 37 - 44

Received: Apr 03, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.042.10354

Keywords
medieval urban layouts, historic towns in Lesser Poland, protection of historic towns

© 2020 Kazimierz Kuśnierz et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Issues with Protecting Medieval Urban Layouts from Selected Example Towns in Lesser Poland

Published Online: May 16, 2020

Page range: 37 - 44

Received: Apr 03, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.042.10354

Keywordsmedieval urban layouts, historic towns in Lesser Poland, protection of historic towns

© 2020 Kazimierz Kuśnierz et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
medieval urban layouts, historic towns in Lesser Poland, protection of historic towns