As part of shared research programmes of the Universities of Florence and Krakow between archaeology and medieval architecture, this essay aims to offer an illustrated overview of themes and methodological procedures in the field of public archaeology, derived from activities carried out by the Chair of Medieval Archaeology of the University of Florence in Italy and in the Near East over the last two decades. These same activities are also examples of the first (2006) activities in Italy (and among the first in continental Europe) of the scientific and academic foundation of this specific field given by the British School of the UCL. The Italian-Polish collaboration particularly includes projects the University is working on with the PAN (in Warsaw/IAEO, Wroclaw, Gdansk), the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and the CNR-ITABC in Rome.

Keywords: public archaeology, Italy, Middle Ages, history, light archaeology, Florence, Jordan

Doświadczenia archeologii publicznej we Włoszech: dziedzina dyscypliny w trakcie definiowania

Artykuł powstał jako rezultat wspólnych programów badawczych Uniwersytetu we Florencji i Politechniki Krakowskiej z pogranicza archeologii i architektury średniowiecznej. Tekst ma na celu przedstawienie ilustrowanego przeglądu tematów i procedur metodologicznych z zakresu archeologii publicznej.

Jerusalem – a new ancient city created by the authorities of the British Mandate for Palestine

War is a unique carrier of urban changes – not only with regard to the destruction that accompanies them but also in the context of the mechanisms associated with their social consequences. Not only for the destruction resulting from military actions but also arising from the mechanisms related to their political and social effects, including architectural and urban creation in a very specific sense. For these reasons, the Great War of 1914–1918 is now generally seen not only as a traumatic political and military experience on a universal scale but also as a trigger that gave rise to the great social changes that occurred in the twentieth century. The cultural change then forced on leaders, to take many different shapes often reaching for the clearly recognisable symbolism at the intersection of urban planning, architecture, historical phantasmagoria and religion. This became particularly visible during the so-called Palestinian campaign of General Edmund Allenby and after British troops captured Jerusalem in December 1917.

Keywords: Pro-Jerusalem Council, orientalism, Europeanisation, parahistorical creation, landscape changes

Explosive Valencia – futuristic imagination and the power of tradition in creating the image of urban spaces. Competition and conflict, or coexistence and praise of diversity?

Shopping centre versus river – a case study

Designing space for children in the context of education in nature

The issues of shaping the city centre – studies on the spatial development of Rzeszów

The issue of the identity of a contemporary regional house – a single-family house in Masłów in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains