The research project is a closer look into the complex phenomena of developing urban growth and decline in the Upper Silesia region, which is changing from the industrial to the post-industrial area. The main issue is, as for an urban designer, to develop and test new ways of action in transforming territories, when working on a site-specific case: peripheral city of Bytom. The binding and framing method for such an experiment is landscape urbanism. In the wider perspective the discussion of the tendencies and the directions of the development in the Upper Silesia are addressed. The project...