Models of Community-Friendly Recreational Public Space in Warsaw Suburbs. Methodological Approach

Dorota Mantey and Agnieszka Kępkowicz
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Dorota Mantey: Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Kępkowicz: Department of Agrobioengineering, Section of Landscape Planning and Spatial Management, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 17, 1-23

Abstract: In recent years, after the rapid and chaotic suburbanization in the 1990s, public spaces were gradually appearing in the new suburbs of postsocialist Poland. It is worth verifying to what extent these spaces are used on a daily basis. This paper aims to present a method of measuring the utility value of recreational public spaces and to determine the relationship between the utility value of space and its publicness. It suggests models of publicness of the most community-friendly recreational public spaces in Warsaw suburbs. As the research shows, intended diversity has the greatest influence on the prosocial character of space. Proximity, on the other hand, does not influence utility value so much. Location at some distance from the main nodes of activity and the highest concentration of houses, but with safe pedestrian access, is of more importance and should be promoted as a condition of successful suburban recreational space. The main conclusion from the research is that the most community-friendly recreational spaces do not have to be fully public. The measurement tools used in analyzing socio-spatial relations contributes to the development of the academic methods of studying the quality of public space.

Keywords: recreational public space; Warsaw suburbs; utility value; publicness; community-friendly space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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