Editing Białystok (section)

==Districts==
[[File:2019-07 Białystok (30).jpg|thumb|[[Kilińskiego Street, Białystok|Kilińskiego Street]], one of the historic streets in [[Osiedle Centrum, Białystok|Centrum]], the central district of Białystok]]
{{main|Districts of Białystok}}
The city of Białystok is divided into 29 administrative units, known in [[Polish language|Polish]] as ''[[osiedle|osiedla]]''.<ref name=Districts>{{cite web | url =http://bipnowy.um.bialystok.pl/?event=kategoria&id=61 | title =Bulletin of Białystok City Hall: City Council resolutions on the administrative division of the city | access-date =2011-06-08 | language =pl | archive-date =2012-03-22 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120322030303/http://bipnowy.um.bialystok.pl/?event=kategoria&id=61 | url-status =live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title = Division of the City of settlements
| url = http://www.bialystok.pl/322-podzial-miasta-na-osiedla/default.aspx
| access-date = 2011-04-15
| language = pl
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110504031625/http://www.bialystok.pl/322-podzial-miasta-na-osiedla/default.aspx
| archive-date = 2011-05-04
| url-status = dead
}}</ref> The first 27 of these were created on 25 October 2004.<ref name="Districts"/> The 28th, [[Dojlidy Górne]], was created by on 23 October 2006, out of three settlements which had been incorporated into the city: [[Osiedle Dojlidy Górne, Białystok|Dojlidy Górne]], Kolonia Halickie, and Zagórki. A new district called [[Osiedle Bagnówka, Białystok|Bagnówka]] was created at the beginning of 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bialystok.pl/pl/wiadomosci/aktualnosci/nowe-osiedle-bagnowka.html|title=Nowe osiedle – Bagnówka|date=2021-01-25|access-date=2021-02-16|language=pl|archive-date=2021-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126075322/https://www.bialystok.pl/pl/wiadomosci/aktualnosci/nowe-osiedle-bagnowka.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Districts"/>

The center of the city, [[Osiedle Centrum, Białystok|Osiedle Centrum]], surrounds [[Lipowa Street in Białystok|Lipowa Street]], the [[main street]] of the city. Lipowa Street extends from [[Kościuszko Square in Białystok|Rynek Kościuszki]] (the corner of Spółdzielcza Street) to Plac Niepodległości im. Romana Dmowskiego (the corner of Krakowska Street).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.gisbialystok.pl/ | title=Miejski System Informacji Przestrzennej (GIS) | access-date=2011-07-18 | language=pl | archive-date=2011-07-13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713184613/http://gisbialystok.pl/ | url-status=live }}</ref> Over the centuries the name of this street has taken on a number of different names; [[Choroszcz|Choroska]], Nowolipie, Lipowa, [[Józef Piłsudski]], [[Joseph Stalin]], [[Adolf Hitler]] and Joseph Stalin, once again, to return, after the end of World War II, to its original name – Lipowa Street.
[[File:Białystok skwer im. Konstantyna I Wielkiego.jpg|thumb|A public square dedicated to [[Constantine the Great]]]]
The city covers {{convert|10213|ha|abbr=on}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bialystok.stat.gov.pl/files/gfx/bialystok/pl/defaultstronaopisowa/1102/1/1/polozenie_warunki_naturalne_3.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208160752/https://bialystok.stat.gov.pl/files/gfx/bialystok/pl/defaultstronaopisowa/1102/1/1/polozenie_warunki_naturalne_3.pdf |archive-date=2021-02-08 |url-status=live|title=Położenie i warunki naturalne|language=pl}}</ref> of which {{convert|3210|ha|abbr=on}} is [[agricultural land]], {{convert|4889|ha|abbr=on}} is [[urbanized area]]s, {{convert|85|ha|abbr=on}} is surface waters and {{convert|65|ha|abbr=on}} is wasteland.<ref name="land use">{{cite web
| title = Geodesic status and use of city land
| url = http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/bialystok/ASSETS_09m02_02.pdf
| access-date = 2011-04-16
| language = pl
| url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120314023623/http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/bialystok/ASSETS_09m02_02.pdf
| archive-date = 2012-03-14
}}</ref> The composition of the districts vary from residential near the city center, with a combination of multi-story apartment buildings and individual houses on small parcels, to industrial and agricultural at the city edges.<ref name="land use"/>