The emergence of cultural urban studies in the 21st century is a component of the global, intellectual landscape. In the historical perspective, there are studies on cultural urban studies in England an few studies on urban cultural studies in several states of the world. The various emergences of this intellectual query can be seen from the beginning of the 20th century all over the world, but only recently there have developed a few studies on cultural urban studies in Poland – which revealss that as a new sub-discipline it has a long tail but short body.