Abstract EN:

In all the part of the world, the urban and industrial can be credited with the encroachment of conurbation upon the country side. Everywhere the problem that crops up is how regional development can take place around an important town-center? everywhere the urban crisis gives rise to the discovery of creative and original schemes. Since the beginning of the nineteen-seventies, an attempt at decentralization has been made in the greater warsaw area. Smaller centres are gaining ground and prove tobe quite able to make people settle down thanks to productive activities. The social and spatial transformation now taking place at karczew in connection with a political and social movement is lot a failure. To be sure the greatestcare is necessary here since our case-study is limited but from now onwards the national growth will have to take into account the revaluation of regional space. Spatial practices are changing everywhere and we can see that social habits vary as each individual tries to express himself by satisfying his personal aspirations. The suburban fringe seems tobe a favourate place for new cultural patterns. People come there for peace and quiet, a healthy environnement or to put it in a nutshell a a genuine quality of life together with a strong desire to work and live. It is the usual ground for the expansion of bigindustrial plants in the same way as it gives the state an opportunity to assert its power but it is also the place where people can express themselves by devisiong new techniques and by adapting to new forms of social life.