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    Warsaw: Revival and realignment
    Warsaw: Revival and realignment
    Warsaw: Revival and realignment
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    Warsaw: Revival and realignment

    By Wojciech Dziemianowicz and Jacek Szlachta

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    With 3 million residents, the Metropolitan Warsaw region is today the ninth most-populated capital city in the EU. It has undergone a series of far-reaching changes to its economic structure over the past 50 years to attain this status.
    This essay reviews how Poland's capital went from environmental and infrastructure degradation to the wealthiest capital city in Eastern Europe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEuropean Investment Bank
    Release dateNov 13, 2018
    ISBN9789286138621
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      Warsaw - Wojciech Dziemianowicz

      About the European Investment Bank

      The European Investment Bank is the world’s biggest multilateral lender. The only bank owned by and representing the interests of the EU countries, the EIB finances Europe’s economic growth. Over six decades the Bank has backed start-ups like Skype and massive schemes like the Øresund Bridge linking Sweden and Denmark. Headquartered in Luxembourg, the EIB Group includes the European Investment Fund, a specialist financer of small and medium-sized enterprises.

      1. Introduction

      2. The backstory of Warsaw’s recent development

      3. Strategic thinking about the development of Warsaw

      4. The importance of EIB financial support for the development of Warsaw

      4.1 Addressing shameful environmental pollution

      4.2 Filling the huge infrastructure gap

      4.3 Shaping the transport system

      4.4 Towards the best public transport in Poland

      5. What does the future hold for Warsaw?

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      WARSAW

      Revival and realignment

      Wojciech Dziemianowicz

      Jacek Szlachta

      The findings, interpretations and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Investment Bank. 

      Wojciech Dziemianowicz (right) is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw Faculty of Geography and Regional Development and a member of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning at the Polish Academy of Science. He was a key expert for the Warsaw 2030 development strategy and has headed five research projects financed by the National Science Centre.

      Jacek Szlachta heads the Department of Regional and Spatial Development at the Warsaw School of Economics and is Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning at the Polish Academy of Science. He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Strathclyde University, and an adviser to the chair of the committee on regional policy in the European Parliament. He has worked with EU assistance programmes, the European Spatial Planning Observation Network, the OECD and the World Bank.

      How Poland’s capital went from environmental and infrastructure degradation to the wealthiest capital city in Eastern

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