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Polish Local Government’s Perspective on Revitalisation: A Framework for Future Socially Sustainable Solutions
April 24, 2023
The principal goal of this paper is to investigate the views of local government officials on revitalisation priorities in Polish municipalities. To accomplish this, the perception of revitalisation objectives by local government representatives (who, according to Polish regulations, are responsible for revitalisation planning and carrying it out) was examined. A catalogue of revitalisation objectives, which were assessed by the respondents, was drawn up on the basis of a review of research on the conceptualisation and measurement of sustainable revitalisation and social sustainability at the local level. Exploratory factor analysis was the method used in the study. In total, the list of the examined revitalisation objectives includes 26 objectives related to the following revitalisation dimensions: infrastructure, community, economy, environment, space, co-governance, and inclusion. A survey of the executive bodies of 573 municipalities in Poland revealed a discrepancy between the sustainable approach to revitalisation advocated by the researchers and the perception of revitalisation objectives by the local decision makers. The study demonstrated that decision makers ranked objectives related to the physical dimension of revitalisation and selected objectives related to the social dimension of revitalisation and oriented at counteracting social exclusion by far the highest. The proactive objectives, related to the engagement, mobilisation and integration of the inhabitants, improvement of human capital, stimulation of the local economy and residential satisfaction, were viewed as definitely less important. The challenges facing revitalisation in Poland still fail to be perceived holistically by decision makers, which may hinder the building of strong and sustainable communities.
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local authorities, local policy, revitalisation priorities, social sustainability, sustainable community, urban revitalisation
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Przywojska J. Polish Local Government’s Perspective on Revitalisation: A Framework for Future Socially Sustainable Solutions. (2023). LAPSE:2023.33824
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Przywojska J: Department of Labour and Social Policy, University of Łódź, ul. Rewolucji 1905 r. nr 37, 90-214 Łódź, Poland [ORCID]
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Energies
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14
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16
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4888
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2021
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2021-08-10
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1996-1073
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