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The issue of spatial development of post-industrial facilities and areas is currently one of the most important challenges of planning urban development. The renewal and revitalisation of such areas is part of contemporary trends involving optimal and sustainable development of urbanised areas in order to create a compact city, i.e. one efficiently using its spatial resources. The implementation of revitalisation projects is a complex and expensive process which often requires remediation or reclamation, and consi...

The negative phenomenon of suburbanisation has been observed around the globe for many years. One of the methods of counteracting the process is directing the city?s development inward, improving the urban planning parameters, and using areas potentially attractive in terms of location but in need of new management. They are among others post-industrial areas, frequently characterised by a considerable degree of degradation (brownfields). The objective of the article is the determination of the potential of degrad...