The activating role of cultural and creative functions in the downtown area. Case study of Poznań city center

Abstract

The paper focuses on the questions of using a creative potential to revive and transform often degraded and depreciated city centers. The idea was the identification and classification of urban spaces intended for creative functions implementation. Poznań was chosen as a case study city, for which there was carried out research in the area of the downtown, including quantitative and qualitative analysis. The presented research method aims at identification of potential locations for spatial activities carried out in urban and architectural scale.