Resumen de Creating new urban identities in the era of global urban competition: Experience of polish postindustrial cities.
This paper attempts to examine the problem of urban identity. The basic thematic scope of this work is based on the issues of the contemporary changes within the urban environment in the context of postindustrial cities. The first part of the article is a terminological consideration regarding to the concept of urban identity. The following parts are related to the specific case of a Polish postindustrial city: the city of Łódź located in the Central Poland. The main aim of this paper is thus to examine how the processes of globalization, deindustrialization and other exogenous factors affect postindustrial cities’ identity and how cities are responding to this problem.
