@ARTICLE{Kaźmierczak_Bartosz_Material_2022, author={Kaźmierczak, Bartosz and Pazder, Dominika and Zbierski-Salameh, Suava}, volume={vol. L}, journal={Teka Komisji Urbanistyki i Architektury Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Krakowie}, pages={131-145}, howpublished={online}, year={2022}, publisher={Oddział PAN w Krakowie}, abstract={This paper tackles the questions of material culture and protecting heritage values through urban intervention. Urban intervention is understood as the identification of local heritage with a diagnosis of potential development profiles and application of the adopted solutions to underlie the formation of a new local centrality. It is underlined that the right urban intervention needs to be conducted for and with local inhabitants. Urban intervention, as proposed in this paper, is understood as a tool to properly direct the development of peripheral areas, especially rural ones. The basis for the research is the idea of spatial re-definition that aims to upgrade not only spatial but above all social attractiveness. An original two-stage methodology adopted for the purpose of the research with the use of the author’s AIA method was presented. This developed tool can harness the potential of material culture of local heritage. The shown research methodology is universal and can be applied in any urban interventions intended to transform places characterized by either partially or completely lost spatial and social identity.}, type={Article}, title={Material Culture as a Basis to Strengthen Local Identity and Re-Direct Development — Urban Intervention as a Tool to Protect Local Heritage: Case Study of Tarnowo Podgórne, a Rural Municipality in the Western Poland}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/126493/PDF-MASTER/2022-TEKA-08.pdf}, doi={10.24425/tkuia.2022.144847}, keywords={material culture, heritage protection, urban intervention, peripheral areas, suburban sprawl}, }