Koncepcja osiedla mieszkaniowego po latach

The concept of housing estates after years

• Polish
• English

The article presents the state of knowledge about contemporary issues and realisations of housing estates in the Polish cities. The phenomenon of urban housing estates has emerged in the modernist city planning and architecture stream in the 20s of the twentieth century. In the years 1960-1985 many thousands of housing estates/blocks of flats were built in Poland, including about 4-5 million housing units in the so-called prefabricated large-panel buildings. In addition to discussing new forms of housing estates in modern cities, large part of the article is devoted to the need of modernisation of prefabricated large-panel buildings and revitalisation of housing estates/blocks of flats from the second half of the twentieth century.