Urban Morphology versus Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation

Małgorzata Hanzl is Associate Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Institute of Architecture and Town Planning at the Lodz University of Technology (Poland). She received an M.Sc. degree in Architecture and Urbanism at the Lodz University of Technology (Poland) and completed her master’s thesis in the Ecole d’Architecture de Lyon, France. She received her Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism from the Lodz University of Technology and her habilitation from the Warsaw University of Technology. She teaches urban design and planning in the Institute of Architecture and Town Planning of the Lodz University of Technology and at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, M.Sc. course Architecture for the Society of Knowledge. She was Visiting Professor in Senseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests cover urban morphology and anthropology of architecture, sustainable development and climate change planning, contemporary urbanization processes, and strategic and participatory planning. She is Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Urban Morphology (International Society on Urban Form ISUF) and Land (MDPI). For the last three years, she served as Director Publications/Vice President Publications at the Board of International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) before being involved in the Scientific Committee of this organization.

Anna Agata Kantarek is Professor, D.Sc., Ph.D., Architect, Engineer, SARP (Association of Polish Architects), MOIA (Lesser Poland Regional Chamber of Architects), TUP (Society of Polish Town Planners), PAN (Polish Academy of Sciences), and Creator Architect SARP Status. She is Professor in Chair of Urbanism and City Structure Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology. Her most important published works include: The contemporary idea of the urban block in town structure (based on Parisian cases 1977-1997) 2004 in Polish, On orientation in urban space, 2008 in Polish, 2013 in English, and Tkanka Urbanistyczna. Wybrane zagadnienia (Urban Tissue. Selected Issues) in 2019 (in Polish). As an architect, she was responsible for housing projects in Krakow (Piastowska-Reymonta, Słomiana) and Mielec (Smoczka, Ks. P. Skargi, Akacjowa, Jaworowa, Sienkiewicza-Drzewieckiego, Zygmuntowska). Competition successes include the First Prize for Guidelines for the Local Revitalization Program for Cracow (2006).

Research interests include: urban composition, morphology and typology of urban form, contemporary city space and structure, housing, urban block, cityscape, orientation in urban space, revitalization, modernistic and post-modernistic urban form. She is President of ISUF Polska (2019-2022) and Member of the ISUF Council (2015-2019 and 2021-2023) and leads the ISUF-supported project on Post Socialist Urban Form (Plot by Plot Urbanism). She is Head of Section of Urban Morphology in Board ofUrbanism and Architecture, Academy of Sciences, Krakow Branch, and Head of Section of Urbanism in Committee of Architecture and Urbanism, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Artur Zaguła is Associate Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Lodz University of Technology, Poland. He is Art Historian, scientifically working in the field of architecture and urban planning. Since 2002, he was Academic Teacher at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Lodz University of Technology. He is the scholarship holder of The British Council; in 1994-5, he studied at Kent Institute of Art Design in Canterbury – MA Art & Architecture. His doctoral thesis was awarded by the Minister of Infrastructure. In 2008-11, he was Head of the Habilitation Research Project granted by the Minister of Science and Higher Education. He received his habilitation in the field of  architecture and urban planning obtained at the Faculty of Architecture ofthe Cracow University of Technology. During two terms of office, he was Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering of the Lodz University of Technology. Currently, he is Deputy Director for Development at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning. In 2010, he received the title of Teacher of the Year of the Faculty. He is multi-annual tutor of the Student Scientific Association KĄT, with which he realized many projects, including parametric pavilion as part of the P3 workshops. He is Author of tens of scientific articles in magazines and chapters in monographs and two books. He is promoter of over 50 master's theses in ASP in Łódź. He is Scientific Editor of  magazines "Design_PL" and "Innovation and Design_PL," and Member of the Scientific Council "Mazowsze Regional Studies." He is Reviewer and Editor of several scientific books and articles in magazines. His research interests are: theory of architecture and urban planning,history of architecture and urban planning, revitalization, contemporary architecture, relationships between architecture and fine arts.

Łukasz Musiaka graduated geography and postgraduate study in the field of GIS science. He works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political, Historical Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Lodz. He served as Chairman (2017) and Vice-Chairman (2021) of the Łódź Branch of Polish Geographical Society. Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Spatial Research and book series 'Interdisciplinary Studies on Spatial Dynamics and Marginalization in Central and Eastern Europe' Lexington Books. In his scientific work combine urban geography, geography of tourism, historical geography, and cultural heritage, particularly concerning architectura militaris architecture and urban morphology. He focuses on the morphogenesis and spatial transformations of historical cities and socio-spatial-economic role of cultural heritage. In recent years concentrates mostly on urban morphology, spatial change, reconstruction and revitalization of postwar cities.

Tomasz Figlus graduated in geography and history. Since 2013, he has been Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Lodz. In 2018-2019, he completed a research internship at the Institute of Rural Development and Agriculture of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2014, he has been Vice-Chairman of the Political and Historical Geography Committee of the Polish Geographical Society, since 2019 Secretary, and since 2021, Chairman of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Geographical Society. He is Secretary and Editor of the scientific journal Studies in Political and Historical Geography. He is Co-Founder of ISUF Poland. His scientific achievements, including several dozen publications and conference papers, mainly concern the issues of spatial structures of settlement and cultural heritage in geographical and historical perspective, with particular emphasis on the origin and changes in rural settlement patterns.