Unfinished Utopia

Lebow, Katherine

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“…15 Stalinstadt, later renamed Eisenhüttenstadt, was a factory city, similar in both form and function to Poland's Nowa Huta. 16 As with Stalinallee, but on a simpler scale, Stalinstadt featured neoclassical architecture, socialist realist murals and sculptures, and a commitment to projecting the benefits offered by a socialist future (see Figure 1). In both the street and the town, East German architects and urban planners understood their task as creating a propagandistic image of socialist progress and power, and it was this image that was designed to affect residents and visitors.…”

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The New Socialist Man in the Plattenbau: The East German Housing Program and the Development of the Socialist Way of Life

Sammartino

2017

Journal of Urban History

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This article argues that the importance of housing and the urban environment in East Germany in the second half of its existence grew in tandem with a new vision of socialist society and the means that the state should employ to create it. The East German Housing Program, inaugurated in 1971, made space the primary category in which individual and social transformation was envisioned, replacing the pedagogical processes that had originally stood at its heart. In doing so, architects and urban planners drew on three strands of urban planning that have often been seen in conflict in other contexts: the Soviet concept of the Mikroraion or socialist neighborhood, the modernist housing ensemble of Le Corbusier, and the new urbanism of Jane Jacobs.

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The New Socialist Man in the Plattenbau: The East German Housing Program and the Development of the Socialist Way of Life

Sammartino

2017

Journal of Urban History

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“…79 In her book on Nowa Huta, Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56, historian Katherine Lebow did not go as far as to say that Nowa Huta created a new civilization, but she argues that the roots of the Solidarity opposition movement in the 1980s can be traced back to the 1950s' experiences of the city's residents who built the city as brigade workers in construction and heavy industry. 80 These case studies reinforce that it was more than just the formal expression and urban design of the cities that made them socialist but also the social relations and sense of community that they consciously produced. The transformative aspect of the socialist city was in this integration, which becomes visible through the concepts of infrastructural thinking and the socialist scaffold.…”

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What Was So Socialist about the Socialist City? Second World Urbanity in Europe

Zarecor

2017

Journal of Urban History

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Socialist cities have most often been studied as manifestations of the socialist system itself, linked to the political fate of the Communist Parties in power during their design, construction, and expansion. This article revisits the socialist city and argues for the validity of the concept historically and in the present. Looking qualitatively at this distinct paradigm in Europe, two analytical frameworks are offered, infrastructural thinking and the socialist scaffold. The analysis shows that the universal aspiration for socialist cities was their continuous operation as synchronized instruments of economic production and social transformation in physical space. Distinct from capitalist cities, they had an ideological role in an economic model that instrumentalized cities as nodes in an integrated system, described using Stephen Kotkin’s term, “single entity.” The agency of the socialist scaffold has continued into the era of neoliberalism, shown here to have previously unexplored roots in socialism.

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“…Nowa Huta stanowiła jeden z największych w dziejach komunistycznej Polski projekt inżynierii społecznej. Na terenie jednej z podkrakowskich wsi 80 lat temu, 23 czerwca 1941 r., ruszyła budowa "idealnego miasta socjalistycznego" -Nowej Huty wraz z kombinatem metalurgicznym (Gądecki, 2013;Lebow, 2013). Nowa Huta w założeniach miała stanowić kontrast dla mieszczańskiego, tradycyjnego Krakowa, gdyż miała stanowić nowe, lojalne wobec władzy miasto robotnicze (Pozniak, 2014).…”

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“…Powstanie kombinatu metalurgicznego -Huty im. Lenina -oraz miasta Nowa Huta stanowi przykład jednego z kierunków rozwoju, którym jest zlokalizowanie w jednym miejscu inwestycji przemysłowej oraz zupełnie nowego, dużego organizmu miejskiego (Lebow, 2013).…”

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Znaczenie stereotypów w postrzeganiu atrakcyjności Nowej Huty dla odwiedzających i mieszkańców

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Woronkowicz

2021

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The paper undertakes the broadly understood perception of tourism space. The research aim is to present the topic in the context of Nowa Huta – the youngest quarter of Krakow (Poland). Empirical data was gathered on the basis of questionnaires distributed among 400 permanent and temporal residents of Krakow and the closest neighburhood of the city. The main hypothesis is related to the existence of differences in the perception of Nowa Huta according to the place of residence of respondents. On the basis of analysis of the empirical material it was proved that the majority of respondents are familiar with the quarter. In their opinion, Nowa Huta is presented as a dangerous, grey, and scary place. Positive perception of the quarter is typical mainly its residents. The results might be used to determine the directions of the future development of Nowa Huta to improve its image and become more attractive for tourists and residents. The results also prove the relationship between the familiarity of the place and its positive perception.

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Unfinished Utopia

Cited by 85 publications

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The New Socialist Man in the Plattenbau: The East German Housing Program and the Development of the Socialist Way of Life

The New Socialist Man in the Plattenbau: The East German Housing Program and the Development of the Socialist Way of Life

What Was So Socialist about the Socialist City? Second World Urbanity in Europe

Znaczenie stereotypów w postrzeganiu atrakcyjności Nowej Huty dla odwiedzających i mieszkańców

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