Social significance of technical water purification and treatment plants – on the cusp of new functions of the technical service buildings of cities
Authors:
- Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Wrobel
Abstract
Departure from environmentally unfriendly public attitudes and the increasing awareness of environmental protection and the management of natural resources among the residents of cities lead to pro-environmental design efforts—including planning and urban-design-related ones, for the shaping of urban structures. One of the elements of cities that, on the one hand, stir public emotions and on the other constitute an inseparable element of the urban organism, are structures that provide technical services to cities. Examples of these structures include wastewater treatment and water purification plants. The goal of this article is an attempt at finding an answer to the question about what role do wastewater treatment and water purification plants currently play in the structure of Polish cities and what other roles can they play. Particular emphasis was placed on the public reception of such structures. Based on Polish cases, this reception appears to most often be either neutral or negative. The author explores the mechanism of these reactions and their causes, particularly in reference to other structures that provide technical services to cities (e.g. eco-incineration plants, whose construction is faced with intense opposition from residents in Polish conditions almost every time). Nine Polish cities in which a total of thirteen wastewater treatment and water purification plants were subjected to an analysis. The article also referred to examples of good practices in the construction of such structures found in other foreign cities. The author searches for an answer to the question about the cause of public opposition to the construction of these types of structures, and whether we can—and if so, then how—prevent such public attitudes in relation to these types of structures.
- Record ID
- CUTaca5103611ac42f9af0f80f1d8383ea2
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Journal series
- IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, ISSN 1757-8981, e-ISSN 1757-899X, Irregular
- Issue year
- 2019
- Vol
- 603
- Pages
- [1-7]
- Article number
- 022017
- Other elements of collation
- tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 6-7; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 11; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 603
- Substantive notes
- Section 1
- Conference
- 4th World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium (WMCAUS 2019), 2019, 17-06-2019 - 21-06-2019, Prague, Czechy
- Keywords in Polish
- oczyszczalnie ścieków, stacje uzdatniania wody, obiekty inżynieryjne, miasto ekologiczne, uzdatnianie wody, społeczeństwo ekologiczne, miasto ekologiczne
- Keywords in English
- technical water purification and treatment plants, ecological city, social significance, service buildings, wastewater treatment plants, engineering structures, water purification, ecological society
- DOI
- DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/603/2/022017 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/603/2/022017 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 5
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTaca5103611ac42f9af0f80f1d8383ea2/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTaca5103611ac42f9af0f80f1d8383ea2
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