Revitalisation is a process of bringing degraded areas back from a state of crisis. It is carried out in a comprehensiveway, through integrated activities for the local community, space and economy, concentrated territorially, led by revitalisationstakeholders and based on municipal (local) revitalisation programmes. The Municipal Council accepts the RevitalisationProgramme in a resolution. It includes a detailed diagnosis of the revitalisation area, including an analysis of negativephenomena and local potentials in the area. Putting this purpose into practice makes use of GIS technology, which facilitatesthe process of gathering information about the area and preparing maps, and therefore is helpful to conduct urban inventories.GIS tools allow the location of concentrations of phenomena associated with the degradation of the urban space to be specified,such as crime, unemployment, areas where a large number of people have been excluded. These tools are helpful in indicatingthe development path for these areas. GIS tools can help find solutions to problem questions. They help justify the acceptedsolutions. Building multi-criteria decision-making models in a GIS environment, taking into account the social criteria, allowsthe revitalisation process of the area to proceed to fruition. The authors present the results of studies using the example of alocal revitalisation programme in the City of Olsztyn.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/enviro.2017.110