TY - JOUR N2 - Józefa Dietla street in Kraków has been constructed in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was a pioneering urban design solution, meant to act as a sort of ventilation duct for the city, so that its climate could be improved. An important element of this system of ventilating the city is the area currently occupied by a football pitch of the "Nadwiślan" sports club, which allows the breeze of the Vistula river into the city. This idea is evidence of the modern and forward thinking approach to urban planning in Kraków during those times. The role of Józefa Dietla street as a ventilation duct has currently been all but forgotten and is underappreciated despite the fact that the amount of air pollution in Kraków has greatly increased in comparison to the times when the street was being constructed. A measure of this disdain for the role that Józefa Dietla street and the area of the "Nadwiślan" play in keeping the sanitary conditions within the city at acceptable levels is the current layout of the area, which has significantly reduced the ventilating capacity of the street. The planned construction of a residential apartment building in place of the current football pitch will definitely hamper the capacity in which the street can be used for ventilation purposes. In this manner, the evidence of pro-ecological thinking of the urban planners of the XIX century is being wasted by their XXI century counterparts. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/93352/mainfile.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/93352 PY - 2014 IS - vol. XLII EP - 18 KW - city KW - ventilation A1 - Kowicki, Marek PB - Oddział PAN w Krakowie DA - 2014 T1 - A local climate of the Cracow district Kazimierz SP - 9 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/93352 T2 - Teka Komisji Urbanistyki i Architektury Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Krakowie ER -