Sustainable formation of urban development on the example of the primary real estate market in Krakow

Abstract

Due to the high demand on the housing market, it may seem that every investment will find buyers’ interest and the key is its economic dimension. Meanwhile, in the Krakow real estate market, one can observe the trend of SMART market creation, in which the added value is the quality of life of residents of a given investment, especially in terms of using renewable energy sources and ensuring a well-organized space around the investment. The implementation of intelligent energy networks and the widespread use of renewable energy sources will result in more efficient energy transfer, waste recycling, faster identification of the threat and repair after a possible failure. Using, for example, the resources of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, the implementation of ecological solutions is not related to the excessive price of such investments, and guarantees a higher quality of life for new owners. The article presents good practices in the design of housing estates in the city of Krakow. One of such closed settlements is "Osiedle Fi", whose location guarantees good public transport, additionally underground parking places a lot of green areas outside, positively affecting the microclimate of the area. The buildings are made of natural materials and the common parts of the property are illuminated from solar energy. The use of renewable energy sources favors both the environment and reduces the cost of maintaining the property. Rainwater is also used. The next smart housing estate is "Osiedle Ozon". It is a comfortable housing estate with functional land development. Among its main attributes, it is worth mentioning a lot of greenery and naturally diversified terrain. There were used plant species, which have the ability to catch harmful chemicals or dust from soil and air. In this work, a statistical analysis was conducted to compare the prices of housing properties in these two selected settlements to the prices of real estate in the area, indicating statistically insignificant differences in the economic aspect, with significant differences in the quality of life of the potential buyer.

The Methodology for Supporting Land Use Management in Collective Housing towards Achieving Energy Efficiency: A Case Study of New Belgrade, Serbia

“…Intelligent mobility is one of them, and the others are intelligent environment, intelligent people, and intelligent life. [8].…”

“…In the sphere of urban land use, experts point to activities provoking the changes that will lead to the application of the idea of sustainable development into practice, and also to the implementation of the ideas of Smart City to attract citizens. These activities are in the field of: Changing stakeholder policies, changing rules and conventional decision-making methods, and changing patterns of land use in order to achieve sustainability, with the guarantee that the cumulative effect of changes will not interfere with the continuity of community development, but it will contribute to the strength of community change [2,8].…”

“…Several innovative topics have appeared in a contemporary context: Evaluation techniques of planning interventions including social housing initiatives in the context of real estate development, various methodological approaches for regeneration of a public and social housing buildings through a public/private/partnership operation [23][24][25]. Intelligent transport infrastructure and the introduction of motion control sensors as an element of intelligent mobility are also contemporary topics that have their base in the idea of Smart City [8]. The use of computers and modern technologies in a contemporary Smart City will certainly contribute to the accuracy of data, which is important especially in the cadaster realm [14].…”

“…In addition to that, in the period from 2005-2009, a great number of countries have adopted and ratified several international documents regarding energy efficiency, thus taking over the responsibility to reduce energy consumption within targeted values in a certain timeframe (2020-2030) [6][7][8] In cities, energy efficiency issues involve actions within several sectoral areas: Systems for energy production and networks for its distribution (technology of infrastructure), traffic and transport, urban planning, and construction [6], while the domain of special importance for achieving the energy efficiency is housing [5,9,10]. The goals of achieving energy efficiency within the urban concept are: 1/ To reduce energy running costs while maintaining comfort levels, 2/ to enable residents to enjoy affordable sunlight and warmth, 3/ to reduce global and local pollution and 4/ to preserve non-renewable energy sources [5,6].…”

Moving towards a Smarter Housing Market: The Example of Poland

“…The issue of quality of life was also pointed out by Kinder [17], according to which smart housing technologies can help the elderly to ensure independent living in their own homes. Another position on the smart housing concept is presented by Butryn et al [18], who juxtaposes the analysed term with housing estates and claims that the latter are equipped with, among others, green roofs, solar cells, rainwater retention, external gym or three-layer windows. In turn, only one article, written by Maalsen [6], refers the smart housing concept to the functioning of the real estate market, which is the subject of research in this article.…”