%0 Journal Article
%T Revitalization of spa parks as a threat to the material and semantic spheres of spas
	on an example of Kłodzko land
%A Leniartek, Mieczysław K.
%J Przestrzeń Urbanistyka Architektura
%V 2015
%N Volume 1 Dziedzictwo zagrożone, ogrody historyczne w Polsce
%P 73-89
%K landscape of park, revitalization, restoration, spa town, spa village, spa park
%@ 2544-0853
%D 2015
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przestrzen-urbanistyka-architektura/article/rewitalizacja-parkow-zdrojowych-zagrozeniem-dla-sfery-materialnej-i-znaczeniowej-miejscowosci-uzdrowiskowych-na-przykladzie-uzdrowisk-ziemi-klodzkiej
%X 
	The paper contains reflections regarding the changing role of spa parks following the commercialization of the spas. Originally, these parks served as an instrument of psychological and physical treatment, while harmonizing the image of spas. Currently, spa parks by specifically understood “revitalization” have become primarily the part of the process of shaping the image of a town or a village – on one hand for the purpose of the real estate market, the other for the tourism market. The treatment of spa parks only as a catalyst for economic transformation results in the loss of their natural and cultural values. This is due to the fact that the spa parks converted according to the new needs in these specific settlements, lose their intimate nature and become highly frequented public spaces. In addition, the use in the planning of transformations of parks only the principle of mimicry, without taking into account new trends in the garden art causes, that they lose their original role of the focusing factor of elements of the spa town or the village, and become the pseudo decoration in the “theater of everyday life”. In this way, the pattern language which is characteristic for resort parks is deformed or constrained