PhD, BEng, assistant professor at the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Department of Agriculture and Rural Geography (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) Address: Poland
This paper explores the geography of microbreweries in three countries in Central Europe: the Cze... more This paper explores the geography of microbreweries in three countries in Central Europe: the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia. Each has a long, turbulent, and different history of brewing, but in the twenty-first century all of them have experienced the change in this market caused by the so-called craft beer revolution. First, in an exhaustive literature review, we present the reasons for the craft beer proliferation in the world and characterize the beer market in these three countries. We also identify the factors that might lead to the location and clus- tering of craft breweries. Second, we empirically test where the microbreweries tend to locate and what the driving forces are in the clustering patterns in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia, using spatial statistical models (LISA and spatial lag) and data from Eurostat and collected by the authors. Our findings suggest that craft brewers cluster in Central Europe, for reasons related to income and general well-being, the education level, economic activity and creativity, the age of the population, and the distance from cities.
Gospodarowanie gruntami na obszarach wiejskich, 2020
Ustawa z 9 października 2015 r. o rewitalizacji wprowadziła istotne zmiany w zasadach tworzenia s... more Ustawa z 9 października 2015 r. o rewitalizacji wprowadziła istotne zmiany w zasadach tworzenia studium uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego. Kluczowe zapisy odzwierciedlone w art. 1 i 10 ustawy o planowaniu i zagospodarowaniu przestrzennym dotyczyły konieczności opracowania wyprzedzająco do projektu studium analiz ekonomicznych, środowiskowych, społecznych, prognozy demograficznej oraz bilansu terenów, jednocześnie nie konkretyzowały, w jaki sposób przedmiotowe zapisy mają być w praktyce realizowane. Opracowanie analiz i bilansów, skądinąd słuszne jako idea zapobiegania rozpraszaniu zabudowy i przeszacowywaniu terenów inwestycyjnych, stało się tym samym przedmiotem dyskusji oraz prób wypracowania przez urbanistów narzędzi realizujących narzucony prawem obowiązek. Głównym celem pracy jest ocena metod i narzędzi przeprowadzania analiz i bilansów na potrzeby SUiKZP w gminach miejsko-wiejskich i wiejskich w okresie obowiązywania nowych przepisów, tj. od końca 2015 r. do 2019 r. Ponadto podjęto próbę oceny wpływu tych opracowań na przyszły rozwój przestrzenny obszarów wiejskich w Polsce. Pierwszą część pracy poświęcono przybliżeniu zarówno prawnych, jak i technicznych aspektów tworzenia analiz i bilansów, w tym wskazaniu problemów wynikających z nieprecyzyjnych przepisów. W ramach studiów przypadków przeanalizowano i oceniono siedem przykładowych opracowań analiz i bilansów sporządzanych dla SUiKZP. W ostatniej części przedstawiono rekomendacje w zakresie zmian ustawowych dotyczących planowania przestrzennego w Polsce, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem obszarów wiejskich.
Since 2011, when the Pinta Brewery brewed the first AIPA-style beer in Poland, dynamic growth of ... more Since 2011, when the Pinta Brewery brewed the first AIPA-style beer in Poland, dynamic growth of the craft beer market has been observed. While there were 70 breweries in 2010, in 2019 there were already about 420, most of them small. The number of new beers on the market also increased rapidly each year in the analysed period, from around 80 in 2013 to about 2,500 in 2019. Similar changes were noted in other countries, including the USA, where it was accepted to call this phenomenon 'the craft beer revolution'. The aim of this paper is to indicate the reasons for the emergence and development of this process, using Poland as a case study. Based on statistical data and content analyses, as well as studying the modern history of the beer market, the distribution of craft beer pubs and the names of craft breweries, this work provides evidence that the proliferation of microbreweries in Poland can be confirmed by concepts such as a resource-partitioning model, neolocalism, path dependence, and the diffusion of innovations.
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica, 2018
W pierwszej części artykułu autorzy diagnozują problemy procesu plano-wania przestrzennego w Pols... more W pierwszej części artykułu autorzy diagnozują problemy procesu plano-wania przestrzennego w Polsce wynikające z obowiązującego systemu prawnego oraz identyfikują ich efekty w przestrzeni wiejskiej. W drugiej części skupiają się na prezentacji trzech wątków badawczych, stanowiących propozycję aplikacyjnych metod wdrażanych eksperymentalnie do procesu planistycznego, bazując na doświadczeniach praktycznych. W podsumowaniu konstruują listę rekomendacji dotyczących programowania sanacji zagospodarowania obszarów wiejskich.
The concept of multifunctionality is one of the most popular and basic model of the development i... more The concept of multifunctionality is one of the most popular and basic model of the development in rural areas. Multifunctional development is mostly identified as an enforcement of numerous new non-agricultural functions to rural areas which leads to a diversification of the local economy (e.g. Kłodziński 1996). In literature, multifunctional development is understood as a multidimensional and multifaceted concept, hence it should be considered as a complex issue. The main aim of this paper was to make an estimate of the level and landscape diversification of multifunctional development in rural areas of the Greater Poland voivodship. The research was conducted in 207 communes. The analysis was based on the data obtained from the Central Statistical Office. The method used in the research was the synthetic development index established by Hellwig.
Once per term of office, local authorities, according to the bill on spatial planning, have to fu... more Once per term of office, local authorities, according to the bill on spatial planning, have to fulfill obligation to assess the adequacy of spatial development study, in Polish – studium uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego gminy (referred furthermore to as SUiKZP), as well as master plans (respectively, MPZP) which form the legislative reference for development in a community. The assessment is defined in a general way, and thus most often its elaboration is perceived as a response to legal obligation. Such an assumption frequently converts the assessment and its generative procedure into reduced, void content, being result of intentionally limited expectations of local authorities. It produces documents devoid of purpose, and hence, of sense, too. There are many communities which attempt to use this assessment as monitoring tool, means to diagnose the status of the environment approximately every four years. The assessment of validity of study approaches multiple issues including coherence of master plans with overall policy, number of petitions and applications to alter of regulations imposed by SUiKZP, accordance with current legal framework or timely guidelines. Meanwhile one should remember that basic principles of spatial order should not be the product of reactive planning, known also as ad hoc planning. The assessment should create opportunity for a community to reflect on the foundations of spatial policy, on diagnosis of negative tendencies, and indication of means to overcome problems as well as establish long-term planning perspective. The team of authors consists of representatives of three distinct academic centers. Their work refers to the methodology of the assessment of validity of spatial development study. Starting from basic information on status of space in a community, the paper displays elements which are not explicitly indicated in the bill, but are compulsory to acquire continuity of conceptual thoughts related to spatial order and sustainable development. It discusses authors' approach to the assessment, the way it is structured, and its final, preferred role seen in reference of SUiKZP. The study should follow the traces marked in the assessment in order to achieve joint positive impact of both documents.
Since 2011 on the beer market in Poland we have observed an interesting trend, which was noticeab... more Since 2011 on the beer market in Poland we have observed an interesting trend, which was noticeable earlier in the world, especially in Western Europe and the United States. This tendency consists in the increase the number and amount of production of the microbreweries industry - craft breweries, brewpubs, collaboration breweries. Their origin shouldn’t be connected with quantitative leap in the form of market growth in beer sales, but with an increase of product quality. The main aim of this work is to present the development of the brewing industry in Poland in the years 2011-2016 with a particular emphasis on the phenomenon of the so-called "the craft beer revolution". That means growth in market of craft beers, including expanding the product portfolio with new styles of beers so far not produced in Poland on a massive scale. In this work, particular attention was paid to the spatial distribution, intensity and dynamics of the phenomenon in Poland’s regions. It has been attempted to define new basic terms in the field of polish science, which were adapted from the English beer industry. Besides, the authors present the origins, causes and effects of the phenomenon of "the craft beer revolution." At the same time it has been estimated the impact of the phenomenon on the socio-economic development in Poland, including the multiplier effects. In the first part it has been characterized the beer market in Poland in 2011-2016 (main potentates, production and consumption of beer). The second focuses on small and medium-sized breweries (up to 200.000 hl of production per year). The theme of the work has not been researched from the point of view of geography in Poland.
The local and global decrease in significance of agriculture has caused a number of transfor-mati... more The local and global decrease in significance of agriculture has caused a number of transfor-mations in rural areas. Currently the dominant thesis claims the essentiality of economic ac-tivity diversification in the countryside and incorporation of non-agricultural functions into rural areas. One of the most important concepts of rural development pertaining to these changes is the multifunctional development. Most often, it is identified with the introduction of new non-agricultural functions into the economic space of rural areas. The effect is in the diversification of the local economy and changes in spatial development. The postulated in-crease in the number of business entities is to lead to an improvement in the socio-economic situation, including the quality of life of the rural areas inhabitants. As a result, the attractive-ness of the countryside increases as a place to live and, consequently, the surge of people is expected. The local economic activity zones are investment areas which are privileged through prefer-ential fiscal conditions for entrepreneurs (e.g. tax breaks) and partially formalized (e.g. through local land use plan or a local government resolution or as a subzone of the SEZ - spe-cial economic zones). The main objective of creating local economic activity zones is to stim-ulate entrepreneurship in local scale. The main subject of the thesis was the impact of local economic activity zones on socioeco-nomic development, multifunctionality and land use in rural areas in Wielkopolskie voivode-ship. The specific objectives are identification of conditions and rules of creating and func-tioning of local economic activity zones in rural areas, characteristics and classification of local economic activity zones in the rural areas of Wielkopolskie voivodeship, indication of the place of local economic activity zones in communal spatial policies, evaluation of the location rent impact on the location of local economic activity zones, the assessment of their impact on the number of employees, unemployment, business entities, income of the commune and population, establishment of the connection between the existence of local economic activity zones and the typology and the investment attractiveness of rural areas. The methodological objective was the construction of the ex-ante and ex-post models of local economic activity zones functioning in rural areas. The application objective was to formulate recommendations for local governments in the area of creating local economic activity zones. The objective scope of the elaboration consists of local economic activity zones, identified in course of scientific research. The territorial scope of the thesis embraces rural areas in the Wielkopolskie voivodeship, defined in the Official National Registry of Territorial Division of the State (TERYT) as rural communes and rural part of rural-urban communes. The time range is a period between 1989-2017. Diagnostic survey, case studies, in-depth interviews, descriptive statistics and statistical inference methods have been used as a research methods. In Wielkopolskie voivodeship 61 local economic activity zones have been diagnosed. 43 were active that means they have business entities. As part of the study, using the V Cramer coefficient, there was a moderate strength correlation between the existence of local business activity zones and the investment attractiveness and typology of rural areas. We can observe the concentration of zones in areas with high level of investment attractiveness e.g. in the highway buffer zone, route between Poznań and Wrocław and Poznań agglomeration. About 50% of observed local economic activity zones has been characterized the high or me-dium high location rent. Among the most classified zones were seven located in the poznański district (near Poznań). More than 30% of local economic avtivity zones are situated at distance of 30 km from highway. Least zones are in rural peripheral areas in the north of analysed region. There is a statistical relation between existing of local economic activity zones and the level of multifunctional development (using Hellwig index). The zones act in rural areas with higher level of multifunctionality. According to predictions based on the latest results of similar research in this filed (role of entrepreneurs in socio-economic development), it was found that local economic activity zones affect the increase in the number of people working (employees) more than average, thus they may be an element supporting multifunctional development. Also a more dynamic population growth was observed in rural areas, where zones functioned. However, there was no significant impact on unemployment, the number of business entities or the income of the commune. The biggest problem during creating local economic activity zones is insufficient diagnose of local sources by local government before the process. As a result, there is a lot of inactive zones. In opposite to one of the hypothesis, the local economic activity zones don’t prevent spatial conflicts.
This paper explores the geography of microbreweries in three countries in Central Europe: the Cze... more This paper explores the geography of microbreweries in three countries in Central Europe: the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia. Each has a long, turbulent, and different history of brewing, but in the twenty-first century all of them have experienced the change in this market caused by the so-called craft beer revolution. First, in an exhaustive literature review, we present the reasons for the craft beer proliferation in the world and characterize the beer market in these three countries. We also identify the factors that might lead to the location and clus- tering of craft breweries. Second, we empirically test where the microbreweries tend to locate and what the driving forces are in the clustering patterns in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia, using spatial statistical models (LISA and spatial lag) and data from Eurostat and collected by the authors. Our findings suggest that craft brewers cluster in Central Europe, for reasons related to income and general well-being, the education level, economic activity and creativity, the age of the population, and the distance from cities.
Gospodarowanie gruntami na obszarach wiejskich, 2020
Ustawa z 9 października 2015 r. o rewitalizacji wprowadziła istotne zmiany w zasadach tworzenia s... more Ustawa z 9 października 2015 r. o rewitalizacji wprowadziła istotne zmiany w zasadach tworzenia studium uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego. Kluczowe zapisy odzwierciedlone w art. 1 i 10 ustawy o planowaniu i zagospodarowaniu przestrzennym dotyczyły konieczności opracowania wyprzedzająco do projektu studium analiz ekonomicznych, środowiskowych, społecznych, prognozy demograficznej oraz bilansu terenów, jednocześnie nie konkretyzowały, w jaki sposób przedmiotowe zapisy mają być w praktyce realizowane. Opracowanie analiz i bilansów, skądinąd słuszne jako idea zapobiegania rozpraszaniu zabudowy i przeszacowywaniu terenów inwestycyjnych, stało się tym samym przedmiotem dyskusji oraz prób wypracowania przez urbanistów narzędzi realizujących narzucony prawem obowiązek. Głównym celem pracy jest ocena metod i narzędzi przeprowadzania analiz i bilansów na potrzeby SUiKZP w gminach miejsko-wiejskich i wiejskich w okresie obowiązywania nowych przepisów, tj. od końca 2015 r. do 2019 r. Ponadto podjęto próbę oceny wpływu tych opracowań na przyszły rozwój przestrzenny obszarów wiejskich w Polsce. Pierwszą część pracy poświęcono przybliżeniu zarówno prawnych, jak i technicznych aspektów tworzenia analiz i bilansów, w tym wskazaniu problemów wynikających z nieprecyzyjnych przepisów. W ramach studiów przypadków przeanalizowano i oceniono siedem przykładowych opracowań analiz i bilansów sporządzanych dla SUiKZP. W ostatniej części przedstawiono rekomendacje w zakresie zmian ustawowych dotyczących planowania przestrzennego w Polsce, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem obszarów wiejskich.
Since 2011, when the Pinta Brewery brewed the first AIPA-style beer in Poland, dynamic growth of ... more Since 2011, when the Pinta Brewery brewed the first AIPA-style beer in Poland, dynamic growth of the craft beer market has been observed. While there were 70 breweries in 2010, in 2019 there were already about 420, most of them small. The number of new beers on the market also increased rapidly each year in the analysed period, from around 80 in 2013 to about 2,500 in 2019. Similar changes were noted in other countries, including the USA, where it was accepted to call this phenomenon 'the craft beer revolution'. The aim of this paper is to indicate the reasons for the emergence and development of this process, using Poland as a case study. Based on statistical data and content analyses, as well as studying the modern history of the beer market, the distribution of craft beer pubs and the names of craft breweries, this work provides evidence that the proliferation of microbreweries in Poland can be confirmed by concepts such as a resource-partitioning model, neolocalism, path dependence, and the diffusion of innovations.
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica, 2018
W pierwszej części artykułu autorzy diagnozują problemy procesu plano-wania przestrzennego w Pols... more W pierwszej części artykułu autorzy diagnozują problemy procesu plano-wania przestrzennego w Polsce wynikające z obowiązującego systemu prawnego oraz identyfikują ich efekty w przestrzeni wiejskiej. W drugiej części skupiają się na prezentacji trzech wątków badawczych, stanowiących propozycję aplikacyjnych metod wdrażanych eksperymentalnie do procesu planistycznego, bazując na doświadczeniach praktycznych. W podsumowaniu konstruują listę rekomendacji dotyczących programowania sanacji zagospodarowania obszarów wiejskich.
The concept of multifunctionality is one of the most popular and basic model of the development i... more The concept of multifunctionality is one of the most popular and basic model of the development in rural areas. Multifunctional development is mostly identified as an enforcement of numerous new non-agricultural functions to rural areas which leads to a diversification of the local economy (e.g. Kłodziński 1996). In literature, multifunctional development is understood as a multidimensional and multifaceted concept, hence it should be considered as a complex issue. The main aim of this paper was to make an estimate of the level and landscape diversification of multifunctional development in rural areas of the Greater Poland voivodship. The research was conducted in 207 communes. The analysis was based on the data obtained from the Central Statistical Office. The method used in the research was the synthetic development index established by Hellwig.
Once per term of office, local authorities, according to the bill on spatial planning, have to fu... more Once per term of office, local authorities, according to the bill on spatial planning, have to fulfill obligation to assess the adequacy of spatial development study, in Polish – studium uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego gminy (referred furthermore to as SUiKZP), as well as master plans (respectively, MPZP) which form the legislative reference for development in a community. The assessment is defined in a general way, and thus most often its elaboration is perceived as a response to legal obligation. Such an assumption frequently converts the assessment and its generative procedure into reduced, void content, being result of intentionally limited expectations of local authorities. It produces documents devoid of purpose, and hence, of sense, too. There are many communities which attempt to use this assessment as monitoring tool, means to diagnose the status of the environment approximately every four years. The assessment of validity of study approaches multiple issues including coherence of master plans with overall policy, number of petitions and applications to alter of regulations imposed by SUiKZP, accordance with current legal framework or timely guidelines. Meanwhile one should remember that basic principles of spatial order should not be the product of reactive planning, known also as ad hoc planning. The assessment should create opportunity for a community to reflect on the foundations of spatial policy, on diagnosis of negative tendencies, and indication of means to overcome problems as well as establish long-term planning perspective. The team of authors consists of representatives of three distinct academic centers. Their work refers to the methodology of the assessment of validity of spatial development study. Starting from basic information on status of space in a community, the paper displays elements which are not explicitly indicated in the bill, but are compulsory to acquire continuity of conceptual thoughts related to spatial order and sustainable development. It discusses authors' approach to the assessment, the way it is structured, and its final, preferred role seen in reference of SUiKZP. The study should follow the traces marked in the assessment in order to achieve joint positive impact of both documents.
Since 2011 on the beer market in Poland we have observed an interesting trend, which was noticeab... more Since 2011 on the beer market in Poland we have observed an interesting trend, which was noticeable earlier in the world, especially in Western Europe and the United States. This tendency consists in the increase the number and amount of production of the microbreweries industry - craft breweries, brewpubs, collaboration breweries. Their origin shouldn’t be connected with quantitative leap in the form of market growth in beer sales, but with an increase of product quality. The main aim of this work is to present the development of the brewing industry in Poland in the years 2011-2016 with a particular emphasis on the phenomenon of the so-called "the craft beer revolution". That means growth in market of craft beers, including expanding the product portfolio with new styles of beers so far not produced in Poland on a massive scale. In this work, particular attention was paid to the spatial distribution, intensity and dynamics of the phenomenon in Poland’s regions. It has been attempted to define new basic terms in the field of polish science, which were adapted from the English beer industry. Besides, the authors present the origins, causes and effects of the phenomenon of "the craft beer revolution." At the same time it has been estimated the impact of the phenomenon on the socio-economic development in Poland, including the multiplier effects. In the first part it has been characterized the beer market in Poland in 2011-2016 (main potentates, production and consumption of beer). The second focuses on small and medium-sized breweries (up to 200.000 hl of production per year). The theme of the work has not been researched from the point of view of geography in Poland.
The local and global decrease in significance of agriculture has caused a number of transfor-mati... more The local and global decrease in significance of agriculture has caused a number of transfor-mations in rural areas. Currently the dominant thesis claims the essentiality of economic ac-tivity diversification in the countryside and incorporation of non-agricultural functions into rural areas. One of the most important concepts of rural development pertaining to these changes is the multifunctional development. Most often, it is identified with the introduction of new non-agricultural functions into the economic space of rural areas. The effect is in the diversification of the local economy and changes in spatial development. The postulated in-crease in the number of business entities is to lead to an improvement in the socio-economic situation, including the quality of life of the rural areas inhabitants. As a result, the attractive-ness of the countryside increases as a place to live and, consequently, the surge of people is expected. The local economic activity zones are investment areas which are privileged through prefer-ential fiscal conditions for entrepreneurs (e.g. tax breaks) and partially formalized (e.g. through local land use plan or a local government resolution or as a subzone of the SEZ - spe-cial economic zones). The main objective of creating local economic activity zones is to stim-ulate entrepreneurship in local scale. The main subject of the thesis was the impact of local economic activity zones on socioeco-nomic development, multifunctionality and land use in rural areas in Wielkopolskie voivode-ship. The specific objectives are identification of conditions and rules of creating and func-tioning of local economic activity zones in rural areas, characteristics and classification of local economic activity zones in the rural areas of Wielkopolskie voivodeship, indication of the place of local economic activity zones in communal spatial policies, evaluation of the location rent impact on the location of local economic activity zones, the assessment of their impact on the number of employees, unemployment, business entities, income of the commune and population, establishment of the connection between the existence of local economic activity zones and the typology and the investment attractiveness of rural areas. The methodological objective was the construction of the ex-ante and ex-post models of local economic activity zones functioning in rural areas. The application objective was to formulate recommendations for local governments in the area of creating local economic activity zones. The objective scope of the elaboration consists of local economic activity zones, identified in course of scientific research. The territorial scope of the thesis embraces rural areas in the Wielkopolskie voivodeship, defined in the Official National Registry of Territorial Division of the State (TERYT) as rural communes and rural part of rural-urban communes. The time range is a period between 1989-2017. Diagnostic survey, case studies, in-depth interviews, descriptive statistics and statistical inference methods have been used as a research methods. In Wielkopolskie voivodeship 61 local economic activity zones have been diagnosed. 43 were active that means they have business entities. As part of the study, using the V Cramer coefficient, there was a moderate strength correlation between the existence of local business activity zones and the investment attractiveness and typology of rural areas. We can observe the concentration of zones in areas with high level of investment attractiveness e.g. in the highway buffer zone, route between Poznań and Wrocław and Poznań agglomeration. About 50% of observed local economic activity zones has been characterized the high or me-dium high location rent. Among the most classified zones were seven located in the poznański district (near Poznań). More than 30% of local economic avtivity zones are situated at distance of 30 km from highway. Least zones are in rural peripheral areas in the north of analysed region. There is a statistical relation between existing of local economic activity zones and the level of multifunctional development (using Hellwig index). The zones act in rural areas with higher level of multifunctionality. According to predictions based on the latest results of similar research in this filed (role of entrepreneurs in socio-economic development), it was found that local economic activity zones affect the increase in the number of people working (employees) more than average, thus they may be an element supporting multifunctional development. Also a more dynamic population growth was observed in rural areas, where zones functioned. However, there was no significant impact on unemployment, the number of business entities or the income of the commune. The biggest problem during creating local economic activity zones is insufficient diagnose of local sources by local government before the process. As a result, there is a lot of inactive zones. In opposite to one of the hypothesis, the local economic activity zones don’t prevent spatial conflicts.
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It produces documents devoid of purpose, and hence, of sense, too. There are many communities which attempt to use this assessment as monitoring tool, means to diagnose the status of the environment approximately every four years. The assessment of validity of study approaches multiple issues including coherence of master plans with overall policy, number of petitions and applications to alter of regulations
imposed by SUiKZP, accordance with current legal framework or timely guidelines.
Meanwhile one should remember that basic principles of spatial order should not be the product of reactive planning, known also as ad hoc planning. The assessment should create opportunity for a community to reflect on the foundations of spatial policy, on diagnosis of negative tendencies, and indication of means to overcome problems as well as
establish long-term planning perspective.
The team of authors consists of representatives of three distinct academic centers. Their work refers to the methodology of the assessment of validity of spatial development study. Starting from basic information on status of space in a community, the paper displays
elements which are not explicitly indicated in the bill, but are compulsory to acquire continuity of conceptual thoughts related to spatial order and sustainable development. It discusses authors' approach to the assessment, the way it is structured, and its final, preferred role seen in reference of SUiKZP. The study should follow the traces marked in the assessment in order to achieve joint positive impact of both documents.
It produces documents devoid of purpose, and hence, of sense, too. There are many communities which attempt to use this assessment as monitoring tool, means to diagnose the status of the environment approximately every four years. The assessment of validity of study approaches multiple issues including coherence of master plans with overall policy, number of petitions and applications to alter of regulations
imposed by SUiKZP, accordance with current legal framework or timely guidelines.
Meanwhile one should remember that basic principles of spatial order should not be the product of reactive planning, known also as ad hoc planning. The assessment should create opportunity for a community to reflect on the foundations of spatial policy, on diagnosis of negative tendencies, and indication of means to overcome problems as well as
establish long-term planning perspective.
The team of authors consists of representatives of three distinct academic centers. Their work refers to the methodology of the assessment of validity of spatial development study. Starting from basic information on status of space in a community, the paper displays
elements which are not explicitly indicated in the bill, but are compulsory to acquire continuity of conceptual thoughts related to spatial order and sustainable development. It discusses authors' approach to the assessment, the way it is structured, and its final, preferred role seen in reference of SUiKZP. The study should follow the traces marked in the assessment in order to achieve joint positive impact of both documents.