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Murale i street art w przestrzeni miasta. Przypadek Krakowa

Piotr Trzepacz

Geographical Studies, Issue 173, 2023, pp. 231-256

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833113PG.23.026.19547

Street art became a popular element of urban landscape all over the world. Kraków’s walls also work as an open space art gallery. Although graffiti and street art can be considered common and known since a long time, so far it wasn’t researched that often by geographers. That’s why the goal of this paper is to establish spatial distribution features of street art in Kraków. Separately different types of street art have been examined with an attempt to explain what causes concentration of some of them in downtown districts and what makes other ones existing in large housing estates. Analysis of spatial distribution were conducted based on data collected as a part of the permanent monitoring that is carried on since the year 2016. Its base constitutes of full field mappings within the city limits (in 2016, and 2021) and is regularly updated in the case of newly identified and documented works – by geotagged mobile photography. In Kraków the area of street art concentration surrounds the Old Town. Kazimierz, Stare Podgórze, and Zabłocie districts create an area with the greatest number and diversity of documented works. At the same time large housing estates located outside of central part of the city, and even some peripheral neighbourhoods are decorated with murals. Importance of street art in Kraków is defined by its official policy towards murals being implemented.

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Connecting airports with cities. Perspectives of air-rail links development in central Europe

Piotr Trzepacz

Geographical Studies, Issue 130, 2012 , pp. 107-129

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833113PG.12.023.0664

Air travel has increased rapidly in Central Europe in the first decade of the 21st century thanks to the admission of Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to the European Union and the liberalization of their air travel market. Rapid increase in the number of air travelers in Central Europe created new challenges for Central European airports, which had to expand, modernize and better connect to urban cores. The best solution of the last problem is to organize rail transport, which can handle considerable high passenger volumes, avoids traffic jams, and exerts a relatively small impact on the natural environment. The creation of rail transportation systems increases the airports competitiveness of making cities and whole geographical regions more accessible in general. Another benefit of this transport is that the construction of airportrail links includes metropolitan areas which had no efficient transport systems.

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Pasażerski transport lotniczy Polski w dobie liberalizacji (2004–2012)

Piotr Trzepacz

Geographical Studies, Issue 131, 2012 , pp. 7-34

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833113PG.12.025.0950

As a result of socio-economic changes in the early 1990s, the inhabitants of Poland gained the opportunity of unrestricted movement beyond the country’s borders. However, only with the liberalization of air transportation, brought about by Poland’s entry into the European Union, were Poles given a real option of using an airplane as a feasible means of travel. This was in large part attributed to the introduction of low-fare airlines, which utilize mainly regional airports. The large wave of migration stemming from the opening up of labor markets to the inhabitants of new E U member states served as an additional factor creating additional demand. Owing to the above, since 2004, passenger air transportation in Poland has reached new levels. I n 2013 the number of passengers checked in at Polish airports should exceed 25 million. Although the global economic crisis has hampered all air transportation markets in Europe, Polish airports have exceptionally quickly returned to the path of dynamic growth. I n the immediate future, the direction and dynamics of air transportation growth in Poland will be in large part bound to the fate of Poland’s national air carrier – P L L L O T.

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Sto lat doświadczeń portów lotniczych w przestrzeni Europy

Piotr Trzepacz

Geographical Studies, Issue 131, 2012 , pp. 35-53

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833113PG.12.026.0951

Air transportation infrastructure has been present in Europe for over 100 years. In that period of time, the location pattern of airports has changed. Initially, airports were established at central locations in urbanized areas. Later on, airports were being established closer to the city limits. With the growth of new suburbs, such locations became no less burdensome. Today, the building of new airports takes place at substantial distances from urbanized areas. This by no means implies that new airports are somehow disconnected from other types of services or residential areas. Airports are built in line with the concept proposed by J. D. Kasarda, whereby they serve as specialized units, with their unique morphological and functional aspects. In Europe, partly due to the limited availability of land, new airports usually replace old airports. The overall picture of the European continent’s array of airports shows that they are concentrated in its western part. On the other hand, most new airports are found in Eastern and Southeastern Europe – which can be attributed to the region’s effort to overcome its deficit of infrastructure.

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Ewolucja i zróżnicowanie systemów wielolotniskowych na świecie

Piotr Trzepacz

Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society, 20 (1), 2017, pp. 50-61

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543859XPKG.17.004.6733

Multi-airport systems work as the competition for aerotropolis concept as the solution for organizing aviation nodes for great cities. As a part of the paper Author identified multi-airport systems in the world. Features of their location and the results of development paths analysis are presented. Author took under consideration primary functions of objects that build such system with their further transition. This approach gave the possibility to outline multi-airport systems genesis and differentiation. Paper is finished with the attempt to evaluate the advantages of multi-airport systems compared to the aerotropolis concept.

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Piotr Trzepacz

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland