TY - JOUR N2 - Who owns the city? Do the inhabitants of modern cities have a reflection on their place of everyday life? Do they treat the city as commons? Do they feel co-responsible for the directions of development of their cities? Answers to the above questions have far-reaching consequences for urban development policy. They are the basis for assessing the ongoing democratization processes in the local government sphere. They also reveal important aspects of the condition of civil society. Although, on the basis of various indicators the trend is positive, it seems that the awareness of the role of the citizen versus the ordinary resident is poorly rooted in the attitudes of the Polish people. And the lesson of citizenship is still an undisrupted task for a large part of the inhabitants of our country. The greatest hopes lie in the generation of young and educated Poles who, through the development of participative management mechanisms, are becoming more aware of the possibilities of citizens’ influence on urban policy. The article is an attempt to answer the above questions based on literature review, current press articles and empirical studies conducted among a group of students. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109728/PDF-MASTER/23%20Sobol.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109728 PY - 2018 EP - 283 KW - Commons KW - local development KW - local self-government A1 - Sobol, Agnieszka PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Komitet Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju VL - tom 184 Rozwój lokalny i regionalny. Teorie i zastosowania DA - 2018.11.07 T1 - Mine, Ours, Whose? – The Perception of a City as Commons SP - 275 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109728 T2 - Studia KPZK ER -