In Search of Social Resilience? Regeneration Strategies for Polish Cities

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is a well written and theoretically well based paper about the urban regeneration procedures in Poland, using the case study of Poznan. 

As the theoretical background and the mixed methodology used is good, I have only minor comments.

Most importantly, the paper does not emphasize in the conclusions section the most relevant findings in a focused way. In my opinion the fact, that GUS data shows the extreme importance in society for social regeneration and little interest in environmental regeneration is very important in the light of the results of the study, namely that regeneration projects delivered the exact opposite results, very low effectiveness socially, gentrification and exclusion, and while environmentally the results are also not great, but public seems to be much more interested in the environmental misses of the projects, like the lack of urban greenery, and not with the social issues, population change in gentrification taken as natural.

If such strong points could be highlighted at the end, it would be a much better paper.

Minor comment: authors often compare the projects to "Western European standards", which is not a reliable indicator and should be explained what does that mean.

And finally Figure 5. This figure is really not readable now. Please find a better way to visualize making this map readable easily.

 

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper focuses on an important and current problem in the contemporary dynamics of urban regeneration in Europe, specifically in Poland.

 The article is well structured and presented, with a simple but sound qualitative methodology.

The research is well designed and the results are relevant and reveal important trends in the processes of gentrification and urban regenerations. The conclusions and analysis that are carried out are important for reflection and provide analyses and approaches that should be taken into account for decision-making, regarding urban interventions in areas with some degree of degradation.

English is clear and efficient for the transmission of the contents and description of the investigation.

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