Scenic values of the Katowice-Częstochowa section of National Road No. 1

Abstract

The road investment stage is always preceded with projects, which relate to multifaceted economic, environmental and spatial analyses. The visual values of the surroundings are usually neglected when designing and building motorways and express roads The authors believe that the increasingly large-space range of motorway construction requires that more attention be paid to the landscape context of such investments. Functioning of all objects of the accompanying infrastructure of the transportation system affect the way the space is organized. The aim of the article is to assess, in detail, the scenic values of a selected section of the Pan-European Transport Road Corridor – National Road No. 1, in the Silesian Voivodship. The Pan-European Transport Road Corridor runs through Poland from south to north.