Publications

THERAPEUTIC ENVIRONMENT - A NEW APPROACH TO SPACE IN HEALTH SERVICE FACILITIES – Piotr Szafranowicz

The approach that designers, managers and scientists take to healthcare facilities has been changing for the last twenty years. The new buildings are often build and designed in a way which does not resemble the hospitals of the past.
The impact of physical environment on humans has been a subject of studies for centuries. Environmental psychology as a scientific discipline has been recognized since the 70s. Research studies conducted within its framework translate into architectural transformation of space and organizational changes to the functioning of healthcare facilities. (...)
Health care facilities, designed using the scientific evidence, become places in which the patient recovers not only thanks to the medical knowledge and technology, but also as a result of the impact of the structured environment. In the literature, these spaces are referred to as therapeutic environment…

Publication: Czepczyński M. (ed.), 2006. Spaces of post-socialist cities. Studies of social change in urban spaces. Department of Economic Geography, University of Gdansk - Bogucki Publishers, Gdańsk - Poznan

SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SPACE MANAGEMENT – Joanna Małuj

Significant relationships exist between all participants in the process of space management. Cooperation and communication in relation to space has a decisive factor on the course of decision-making processes and ultimately on the shape and quality of space ...
…Construction of a harmonious space– in the sense of social relations – is based on an agreement as to the established rules of play in that space. Sound assumptions and accepted aims along with pertinent solutions responding to the needs of contemporary human being promise the creation of a quality space, fully satisfying to its inhabitants...

Publication: Czepczyński M. (ed.), 2006. Spaces of post-socialist cities. Studies of social change in urban spaces. Department of Economic Geography, University of Gdansk - Bogucki Publishers, Gdańsk - Poznan

MY COUNTRY, MY CITY, MY PLACE – Joanna Małuj, Piotr Szafranowicz

... The quality of life and residential attractiveness do not depend solely on local characteristics. Factors originating from each of the three levels – country, city and place – are interdependent, complementary and interpenetrate one another. To enhance the quality of life and residential attractiveness of cities, and especially in the age of globalization and EU expansion to compare these features, we also need to take in account the facts that come from a broader context. Even if a city could be perceived as an attractive city in which to live, it does not mean that it is attractive enough because the country in which it is located does not possess characteristics that would allow one to describe it as attractive. Similarly, a place could be as attractive as the city’s conditions of which it is part allow it to be …

Publikacja: Sagan I., Czepczyński M. (red.), 2004. Featuring the Quality of Urban Life in Contemporary Cities of Eastern and Western Europe. Katedra Geografii Ekonomicznej Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego – Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Gdańsk – Poznań

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