The transformation of post-industrial areas of coal mines has been going on for over 80 years. Despite years of discussion and various international experiences, effective instruments and best practices for brownfields are still being sought. Today, in the face of rapidly changing social and environmental conditions, it is necessary to rethink the future of coal regions. To meet the challenges ahead, all experiences must be critically analysed and confronted with land development. This paper shows the main directions of decommissioned coal mines areas in the Silesian Agglomeration. For this purpose, it was necessary to identify closed mines’ areas and recognise they present land use. The research is based on a query of archival and library materials, field research, the author’s classification of land use, and cartographic and quantitative research. The study shows that the main direction of land use is industry (about 48.3%) and services (24.4%). Furthermore, until today more than half of the post-industrial land is undeveloped by mining facilities, and only about 7.4% of it is prepared for potential investment.
Praca jest próbą wyłonienia kryteriów oceny zespołów zabudowy z dominującą funkcją mieszkaniową posługując się porównaniem parametrów uzyskanych w opracowaniu studium programowo – przestrzennym zagospodarowania terenu Bison-Bial S. A. przy ul. Łąkowej 3 w Białymstoku z modelem teoretycznym o średniej gęstości zabudowy na poziomie 1,2. W pracy poddano również refleksji celowość przyjętego modelu w kontekście teraźniejszych i nadchodzących zmian społecznych.
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The work tries to show the criterions of evaluation for bildings complex with predominant housing function by using the comparison of the index parameters resulting from the programatic and spatial study of Bison-Bial S.A factory area at Łąkowa street in Białystok with theoretical model with 1,2 factor of development density. The work also submits a matter for consideration the usefulness of this model in context of present and future social changes.