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Impact of property rights and ownership on the development of Warsaw’s contemporary city centre

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  • Magdalena Górczyńska
  • Przemysław Śleszyński
  • Michael A. Niedzielski

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The paper raises the problem of the impact of unregulated property and ownership rights on the development of the city centre. It applies to Warsaw as a post-socialist city that has recorded fast economic growth since the country’s communist regime collapsed in 1989. We follow the course of changes in the city centre of Warsaw, in particular, those pertaining to land use and high-rise buildings for office use as investments that encounter difficulties under the unregulated status of construction sites and lack of clear regulations for private property restitution that was nationalized under socialism. To describe and explain the difficulties, we provide data showing the location of large companies and office buildings, and examples of conflicts as well. Unregulated ownership issues and property rights weigh on Warsaw’s city centre, now vastly dispersing and gravitating westwards, and prevent the district from rational and effective development.

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  • Magdalena Górczyńska & Przemysław Śleszyński & Michael A. Niedzielski, 2019. "Impact of property rights and ownership on the development of Warsaw’s contemporary city centre," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(1), pages 160-180, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:27:y:2019:i:1:p:160-180
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1531975
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