Social aspects of revitalization of urban public spaces

The main goal of the paper is to present the significance of social participation in management of the revitalization process of urban public spaces. On the basis of the available literature the paper discusses social challenges that local authorities face when trying to resuscitate degraded areas. The following research methods were used for the purpose of this paper: desk research, an analysis of the Polish and foreign literature on the subject as well as an analysis of the Polish legal acts regulating the procedures related to the subject of research and the methods of economic analysis. One of the final conclusions stated that local authorities usually pin their expectations on positive results of revitalization activities, but unfortunately not all attempts of restoration of degraded public urban areas bring the desired results. It happens that even numerous efforts to regain the urban degraded tissue do not lead to the expected level of economic, social or cultural revival.