Attractiveness of a city is an important factor in creating its competitiveness and image. Architecture that expresses one city's history, culture and identity has an impact on city's attractiveness. Modern and innovative buildings contribute to high quality of life and create functional and aesthetical spaces. This thesis presents the impact of innovative architecture on Poznań's attractiveness evaluated by the inhabitants of the agglomeration and the values of selected new architectural objects of the City. These new facilities were assessed on a variety of functions.

The study is a continuation of the undertaken problem of the demand for leisure and recreational places for constantly growing number of residents of Rzeszów. In result of realization of consecutive research stages (forest area recreational values, stocktaking of the transport system, local interviews) There were selected 3 forest stands in surrounding areas of Rzeszów, with the highest usefulness for the recreational use.

Land consolidation is currently perceived in a broader sense as an element of land development, introduced with the purpose of: creating more favourable conditions for management, improving efficiency, reducing production costs, creating appropriate infrastructure, improving the agrarian structure. The aim of the study is to present the institutional framework for the procedure of land consolidation in selected European countries. The document includes an analysis concerning this procedure on the basis of principles applicable in three countries: Poland, Lithuania and Norway. Poland and Lithuania have been selected as states from the Eastern Bloc in which agricultural reforms have been carried out. From a macro-economic point of view, the reform was an unfavourable phenomenon. Land allotment affected commercial farms of large and medium areas which carried out production for the market, which were replaced by small farms operating mainly to satisfy the needs of their owners and were able to sell only a small surplus of their products. Norway is a country with unfavourable farming conditions caused by its geographical location, climate and land form. The study applies the method of logical and descriptive analysis, based on Polish and international literature of the subject. The subject of the analysis mainly included guidelines and regulations concerning land consolidation in Poland, Lithuania and Norway.

The article focuses on the issue of whether the ski lift is a building within the meaning of the tax law and construction law. Solving this problem is supposed to lead to the response whether the ski lift, as the whole are subject to taxation with property tax. Accurate determining the tax base is necessary to properly calculate the amount of the tax. In addition, indicated the problems that arise from combined regulating this issue by the legislator. The study is based on an analysis of the judgments of the administrative courts in the years 2002-2010.

Federal planning system is responsible for ensuring order and security of planning, as well as easing the conflicts occurring at various levels of planning. The article analyzes the principles and objectives of the spatial order of European, federal, national and regional level in Germany. It is very important that these findings have an impact on the findings of local spatial plans. The principle of verticality has also an influence on the occurrence of various policy instruments at different spatial levels. German regional planning aim is to prioritize policy objectives, which are set out in spatial plans and programmes in the countries. It also allows municipalities to submit their own interests in respect to allocate land for specific purposes and include them in regional plans, and thus it also allows to avoid possible conflicts at local and area planning. The regional plans are set out principles and objectives of the spatial order in the region and to determine which are binding for all planning activities at local level.

This study presents problems connected with the space of municipal cemeteries and the spatial harmony. The elaboration of a method of the evaluation of the state of the special harmony of municipal cemeteries with the verification of the method on the chosen research object was a main aim of this study. As the object, the municipal cemetery in Zambrów was used. The author's method of the evaluation of the state of the spatial harmony of grounds of municipal cemeteries, presented in this study, lets on the evaluation of the level of the state of the spatial harmony of these grounds in -phase of designing of the space as well as during its use. The carried out evaluation answers the questions: if the ground was brought into cultivation correctly and which elements of the space must be changed. Moreover, results of the evaluation can be helpful in making of proper decisions during the revitalization works on the ground of old municipal cemeteries.

In this paper there are discussed problems relating to the urban park space. As result of carried out research there were chosen elements of the space having influence on the attractiveness of the described area. Chosen elements of the space helped to work out the method of the assessment of the attractiveness of city parks. In the further part, the worked out method was verified on the chosen research object. As result of the verification it was ascertained that the presented, in the study, method admits of the assessment of the level of the attractiveness of mentioned above grounds, responding to questions: if the ground was brought into cultivation correctly and which from elements of the space must undergo changes. Besides, results of carried out assessment can be helpful in making proper decisions during the operating of revitalization works.

Every suburban area is individually formed by cultural, natural and historical aspects, as well as by its proximity to urbanised areas and the social, economic, and industrial development that such proximity incurs [Jaszczak et al. 2012]. The analyses of landscape function changes are essential to understand the development of the given area in order to make proposals for a sustainable land use management. On the other hand unique landscape values of today and the visitors' preferences for specific landscapes have to be involved in the process of landscape evaluation too [Jaszczak et al. 2012]. This article concentrates on the functional changes as well as on the actual analysis of the landscape and its' preferences by the visitors in the suburban area of Gottingen (Lower Saxony, Germany) called Kerstlingeroder Feld. Land use and landscape function changes were examined by historical and actual analyses based on historical maps, monographs as well as old pictures and paintings. Expert-based methods were used to choose characteristic landscape elements of the area today. The perception of cultural, visual and natural items of the landscape was tested by empirical methods using quantitative and qualitative interviews. The interviews showed that the most preferred areas were panorama views and dominant elements like deadwood and solitary trees. The study has several important implications: First, empirical methods have to be included in landscape evaluation systems to fully understand the preferences, social relationships, and the "rural identity" of what visitors perceive. Second, the development of Kerstlingeroder Feld in the urban forest of Gottingen should advance to multifunctional utilization, as it sets a positive example for sustainable land use.

In cities the significant percentage of green area takes lawns. They have the decorative function and on burglar yards, in some parks and the places of parties make up for children the house gardens and rest of adapt [Haber 2005]. Usually grasses' monoculture was aimed to creation of ideal being lawn, his maintenance requires frequent hair-cutting, fertilization, watering, rolling. This attracts bring about costs and a lot of time absorbs. The studies were undertaken differentiation of the plants in spontaneously setting-up lawns. Meanwhile with natural point of sight, the green grass, levels the state almost the desert. For insects' majority and it does not represent birds no value, it does not deliver food and animal asylum. Small financial intended on nurturing these terrains in many cities centers cause, that they become terrains about large plants differentiation. Many of them have valuable species for insects (nectariferous, polleniferous). In work author taken attempt at defining management principle the test of qualification of general principles what working to undertake to contribute biodiversity in green areas.