INTRODUCTION: "“Waterfront revitalization is one of the most interesting phenomena of urban renewal of the last decades, bringing ‘cities on water’ around the world to a new leadership. […] port and fluvial cities can be considered laboratories for the process of urban renewal in terms of residential [areas], transports, public spaces and quality of the environment”. In the past, riverfronts in Krakow were mostly used as ports, locations for industrial plants or military facilities, as a result they were poorly developed. Now, they are actually abandoned and dilapidated." (...)