Warsaw is percieved as a green city, it has been even shortlisted for the title of European Green Capital in 2018. However, at the same time it has been struggling with severe smog and have been marked as the place with one of the highest air pollution indicator in Europe. It is mainly caused by the coal-oriented heating economy in Poland but also because of bad urban design and common use of car transportation. One of the places in the Poland’s capital with the worst traffic jams is Służewiec Przemysłowy, neighborhood of Mokotów district. Due to a heavy traffic and dense location of numerous corporate office buildings, part of it is informally called “Mordor on Domaniewska Street”. The name is a reference to Mordor, the land created by JRR Tolkien in the fantasy novel Lord of the Rings and pretty adequately picture the hard living conditions of people working there.1 Mordor at Domaniewska is also a symbol of corporate work, with a specific stereotype of people working there - young, ambitious, but overworked, chasing after successive „deadlines” which affects their private life comparing themselves to “orcs”. According to research by TMS Poland, over 40% of employees work more than 8 hours a day. Together with this bustling corporate lifestyle, nowadays we can observe an exodus of many corporate companies from this area to Wola district as it does not provide sufficient and modern conditions for office workers. Life of a business center is short and fast, new buildings offer better working environments and land owners are now investing in the housing estates as Warsaw still desperately needs more and more affordable housing. The change from offices to houses is, however, not a true remedy of the district. If the city council will not provide an alternative ways of transportation, infrastructure, public space and proper services to the area we will observe in few years’ time a change from badly connected office center to a horribly packed and polluted housing district. Right now the places of possible new implementations are vanishing rapidly, the value of sq.m. is high and the location close to city center is tempting to invest in new block of flats. This is why the creation of proper public area and services for inhabitants should be a priority for the city before it will be too late to find place for it.
Varsavia è percepita come una città verde, è stata infatti candidata per il titolo di Capitale “green” d’Europa nel 2018. Tuttavia, la città è soggetta ad un alto tasso di inquinamento atmosferico e risulta essere dunque, tra le città più inquinate in Europa. Le ragioni alla base di tale problema risiedono principalmente in questioni di ordine energetico. In particolare l’uso intensivo dei combustibili fossili come fonte di riscaldamento principale. Il patrimonio edilizio che non è energeticamente efficiente e un intensivo uso del trasporto privato. Il quartiere del distretto di Mokotów risulta essere uno dei più congestionati dal traffico automobilistico, in parte questo primato è dovuto alla densità di uffici che risiedono nel quartiere. Comunemente viene denominato “Mordor”, la terra creata da JRR Tolkien nel libro fantasy "Il Signore degli Anelli" che descrive abbastanza adeguatamente le difficili condizioni di vita delle persone che vi lavorano. Mordor a Domaniewska è di fatto il centro degli affari e del lavoro. Prevalentemente vi lavorano giovani. Secondo una ricerca condotta da TMS Poland, oltre il 40% degli impiegati lavora per più di 8 ore al giorno. Si sta registrando recentemente lo spostamento di questo business district oltre i confini del quartiere, arrivando a lambire la zona di Wola, dal momento che il quartiere Mordor non risulta essere piú idoneo alle necessità dei lavoratori contemporanei. Di conseguenza il distretto che è tra le aree più dense della città, sta perdendo abitanti e in futuro avrà un numero sempre più elevato di edifici vuoti e un decremento della popolazione. Tale trasformazione in ambito urbano, connessa alla elevata necessità di social Housing per Varsavia favorirà la riconversione degli uffici in abitazioni, in particolare quelle a prezzo agevolato. Sebbene la conversione da business district ad area residenziale non è sufficiente per ottenere un quartiere definibile sostenibile. Gli organi amministrativi della città devono fornire direttive ed incentivi per lo sviluppo del trasporto pubblico, infrastrutture, spazi pubblici di qualità e criteri di densità abitativa adeguati. Tali direttive serviranno a far fronte al problema dell’inquinamento e del sovrappopolamento. Questa è un’opportunità unica per Varsavia, poiché si tratta di uno degli ultimi luoghi in cui gli interventi di riqualificazione e riconversione sono possibili.
Improvement of Mordor, part of Mokotw district in Warsaw, Poland : proposition of a new public space
KONSTANCIAK, ALEKSANDRA
2018/2019
Abstract
Warsaw is percieved as a green city, it has been even shortlisted for the title of European Green Capital in 2018. However, at the same time it has been struggling with severe smog and have been marked as the place with one of the highest air pollution indicator in Europe. It is mainly caused by the coal-oriented heating economy in Poland but also because of bad urban design and common use of car transportation. One of the places in the Poland’s capital with the worst traffic jams is Służewiec Przemysłowy, neighborhood of Mokotów district. Due to a heavy traffic and dense location of numerous corporate office buildings, part of it is informally called “Mordor on Domaniewska Street”. The name is a reference to Mordor, the land created by JRR Tolkien in the fantasy novel Lord of the Rings and pretty adequately picture the hard living conditions of people working there.1 Mordor at Domaniewska is also a symbol of corporate work, with a specific stereotype of people working there - young, ambitious, but overworked, chasing after successive „deadlines” which affects their private life comparing themselves to “orcs”. According to research by TMS Poland, over 40% of employees work more than 8 hours a day. Together with this bustling corporate lifestyle, nowadays we can observe an exodus of many corporate companies from this area to Wola district as it does not provide sufficient and modern conditions for office workers. Life of a business center is short and fast, new buildings offer better working environments and land owners are now investing in the housing estates as Warsaw still desperately needs more and more affordable housing. The change from offices to houses is, however, not a true remedy of the district. If the city council will not provide an alternative ways of transportation, infrastructure, public space and proper services to the area we will observe in few years’ time a change from badly connected office center to a horribly packed and polluted housing district. Right now the places of possible new implementations are vanishing rapidly, the value of sq.m. is high and the location close to city center is tempting to invest in new block of flats. This is why the creation of proper public area and services for inhabitants should be a priority for the city before it will be too late to find place for it.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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