Greener, greater and… safer? How COVID-19 pandemic verified New York’s planning strategies

• Autorzy: Jasiński Artur , Oktawiec Wojciech

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.24425/tkuia.2022.144846

Warianty tytułu

PL

Większy, bardziej zielony i… bezpieczniejszy? Jak pandemia COVID-19 zweryfikowała strategie planistyczne Nowego Jorku

• Języki publikacji: EN PL

Abstrakty

EN

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a specific paradox of contemporary urban planning. Cities that since the dawn of civilization have been considered the safest and most attractive human habitats turn into traps in a pandemic. For example New York, the most densely populated city in the United States, became the world’s epicentre of the pandemic in April 2020. Since 1992, successive teams governing the city stimulated proecological planning strategies. From a neglected city, threatened with crime and plagued by terrorism, they turned it into a green metropolis, a symbol of a city of the 21st century. One of the most important planning and urban achievements was the successful revitalization of the post-industrial waterfront piers of Brooklyn and Queens. The rapid growth of bicycle transport stimulated by the planning authorities and supported by the construction of a network of bicycle routes along the main streets and coastal promenades should be noted as well. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of the planning transformations in New York on the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to answer the question whether they made the city more resilient and safer.

PL

Pandemia COVID-19 obnażyła swoisty paradoks współczesnej urbanistyki. Miasta, które od zarania cywilizacji były uważane za najbardziej bezpieczne i atrakcyjne siedliska ludzkie, podczas pandemii zmieniły się w pułapki. Nowy Jork, najgęściej zaludnione miasto USA, w kwietniu 2020 roku stał się światowym epicentrum pandemii. Specyfika Nowego Jorku wynika m.in. z faktu, że począwszy od 1992 roku władze prowadziły w miarę spójną politykę przestrzenną, co przyczyniło się do całkowitej zmiany wizerunku tej metropolii. Z miasta zaniedbanego, zagrożonego przestępczością działania te uczyniły zieloną metropolię, symbol miasta XXI wieku. Jednym z najważniejszych osiągnięć planistycznych i urbanistycznych była udana rewitalizacja poprzemysłowych nadbrzeży Manhattanu i sąsiadujących z nim nadbrzeży dzielnic Brooklyn i Queens. Odnotować należy także stymulowany przez planistów szybki rozwój komunikacji rowerowej. Celem niniejszej pracy jest zbadanie, jakie skutki dla przebiegu pandemii COVID-19 miały rezultaty tych przekształceń planistycznych dokonanych w Nowym Jorku w ciągu ostatniego trzydziestolecia, a także odpowiedź na pytanie, czy dzięki nim miasto stało się bezpieczniejsze i bardziej odporne.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

resilient urbanism; density; connectivity; waterfront; green areas; bicycle route

PL

odporna urbanistyka; gęstość zaludnienia; częstotliwość spotkań; teren zielony; trasa rowerowa

• Wydawca: Polska Akademia Nauk, Oddział w Krakowie ; Politechnika Krakowska, Wydział Architektury
• Czasopismo: Teka Komisji Urbanistyki i Architektury Oddział PAN w Krakowie
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: T. 50
• Strony: 109--129
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 37 poz., mapy, tab., zdj.

Twórcy

autor

Jasiński Artur

• Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-8143

autor

Oktawiec Wojciech

• New York Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Design

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8009-1253

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023)