(latin: Re +vita – literally: bringing back to life, reviving) it is the complex, multi-dimensional process of solving the problems of dilapidated city areas. On the spatial dimension, revitalization is supposed to create new spaces and new externalities in the city–or bringing back spatial order, preservation, featuring the character of past districts and objects. It is not only modernization and renovation of buildings. An amazingly important dimension of revitalization is concentrating on local societies, aiming at improving the quality and conditions of life of the inhabitants. On the economic dimension, the aim of revitalization is to initiate new impulses of economic development and to prompt market mechanisms. The projects conducted within the framework of revitalization are relevant on the functional dimesion too – new uses and ways of development can appear. The revitalized areas gain new functions, they start to teem with life. Certain dimensions stimulate one another and feedback occurs. For example, new functions and image changes are accompanied by the appearance of new users in a given place, while the adaptation connected to the new functions requires changes in physical dimension.

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