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English: The design of the study was developed under the supervision of the Mayor of Białystok, Tadeusz Truskolaski, in the Department of Urban Planning of the City Hall in Białystok, by the author's team consisting of: main designers: Piotr Firsowicz, M.A., Architect, Elzbieta Cukrowska, planning team: Krzysztof Czarnomysy, Elżbieta Drożdżal, Marek Fiedoruk, Emilia Klima, Michał Kwiatowski, Olga Lewandowska, Ewa Małyszko, Adam Półtoryczki, Agnieszka Rozosinska, Sebastian Wicher, Elżbieta Zalewska. The main direction of the city's spatial development, taking into account the provisions of the 2010 Development Strategy for the City of Białystok for 2011-2020, was the "inward development of the city", as a compact city that will develop in a ring-radial system within its current borders without expanding them. The basic directions of shaping the spatial composition are: intensification of development in the internal (urban) area, maintaining the extensive character of development in the external area (pre-city), creating a hierarchical system of central places (concentration of service functions and public spaces), creating an urban "green axis" based on the course the Biała River valley, building a metropolitan structure within the city center, building the continuity of the urban fabric, creating new units of spatial composition in areas requiring transformation. The basis of the functional and spatial structure model, which is a continuation of the development of the existing structure, is formed by four structural units (Central, South, West and East) - groups of areas with a significant degree of independence in the field of housing, services, economic activity, green areas and recreation, separated by railway lines and streets of the basic system. Within individual structural units, there are central places with different scales of influence: "downtown center" - the most important in the city's hierarchy, "South Pole", "Western Pole", "Eastern Pole" and smaller local service centers. Based on the route of the city ring road, the city structure is divided into areas: internal - urban with intensive urbanization and external - suburbs - with lower intensity of development, with a large share of green areas and open landscape. In the city's spatial structure, areas of the city's natural system with the highest environmental values have been identified.