ABSTRACT
Kraków’s urban design and its subsequent development is a distinct, three-zone pattern that emerged between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. These zones include the inner core or old town, a green ring and, finally, an inner suburb that mixes green landscape with the urban fabric. This form owes itself to both the town’s original charter and to political developments. The city’s original charter granted common agricultural lands around the city just outside the fortification walls that had the effect of limiting the town’s growth for several centuries.
