Post-Second World War Reconstruction of Polish Cities: The Interplay Between Politics and Paradigms
| Autor: | Bugalski, Łukasz, Lorens, Piotr |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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Städtebau
Raumplanung Landschaftsgestaltung Geschichte Landscaping and area planning History Polish School of Conservation Recovered Territories conservation retroversion socialist modernism theming tourism economy urban heritage Raumplanung und Regionalforschung allgemeine Geschichte Area Development Planning Regional Research General History Polen Zweiter Weltkrieg Nachkriegszeit Wiederaufbau Stadtplanung Stadtentwicklung Stadterhaltung Stadterneuerung Städtebau Mitteleuropa Osteuropa sozialistischer Realismus Kulturerbe Tourismus Poland World War II post-war period reconstruction urban planning urban development city preservation urban renewal town planning Central Europe Eastern Europe Socialist Realism cultural heritage tourism |
| Zdroj: | Urban Planning, 8, 1, 182-195, Bombed Cities: Legacies of Post-War Planning on the Contemporary Urban and Social Fabric |
| Druh dokumentu: | Zeitschriftenartikel<br />journal article |
| ISSN: | 2183-7635 |
| DOI: | 10.17645/up.v8i1.6116 |
| Popis: | By the end of the Second World War, many of the Polish cities - and especially their historic centres - were in ruins. This was caused by both bombings and sieges conducted by the Nazis and Soviets. The particular group of cities is associated with former German lands - now called the "Recovered Territories" - which were incorporated into the borders of Poland as compensation for its Eastern Borderlands lost to the Soviet Union. These cities started to be gradually rebuilt after the end of the war, although one can distinguish certain stages and types of interventions, varying from the restoration and idealisation of the pre-war townscapes (so-called "Polish School of Conservation," which was developed along principles contradictory to the urban conservation theories of these times) to late modern as well as postmodern (called the "retroversion") principles. This process is ongoing, meaning the reconstruction of the historic cities is not yet completed. At the same time, these processes were embedded within the changing political perspectives - varying from "restoration of destroyed heritage" through "providing modern living environments" up to the "theming urban spaces." In some cities, various stages and approaches overlapped, creating unique palimpsests. The article focuses not only on the evolution of both politics and design paradigms but mostly on the interplay between them and, as a result, on the doctrine's evolution. Consequently, these considerations allow presenting the similarities and differences in the evolution of the reconstruction of Polish cities to the cases known from Western Europe and provide the framework for understanding the contemporary urban design paradigms of Central and Eastern Europe. |
| Databáze: | SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
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