Acta Scientiarum Polonorum

The article aims to identify areas of historical, cultural, and landscape values that are located in the suburban
area of Warsaw and which may play an essential role in stabilizing the urban ecosystem of Warsaw in the
future. Since it turns out that the most effective form of preserving these values is to take them under legal
protection, the article shows good and bad practices in this area, identifying the most significant threats and
indicating opportunities and scenarios worth considering for the future. Finally, the purpose of the article is
to draw attention to the importance of spatial and scenic connections, emphasizing the importance of the surrounding
landscape, which was once an immanent feature of, e.g. suburban estates. The hypothesis is that in
the face of progressing climate change and melting natural resources, it is worth paying attention to the importance
of all urban ecosystem elements, even smaller ones, because they are a component of a larger whole
and are required for ecological balance. Existing resources should be strengthened and protected, and new
places for protection should be sought. Such sites may be the former foregrounds, the immediate surroundings
of monuments, which in the past functioned as larger compositions and should be protected as such.