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The article discusses the topic of spaces adjacent to houses in the oldest area of Nowa Huta, a district of Cracow established in the middle of the 20th century. These spaces are mostly courtyards, and especiallyhousehold gardens located in those courtyards, e.g. at the front walls of houses, between the entryways or inthe backyards, directly under apartment windows. Such gardens – separated spaces established and farmedby the residents of Nowa Huta – provide a basis for presenting the local community. The article constitutesan attempt at analysing the community through those domesticated patches of land, transformed by theresidents’ actions into a place, i.e. a tamed space endowed with individual features and constituting a part ofthe life of individual residents and the community as a whole. |
