During the many stays with my family in law in Poland, I created a fascination: What is the future of the communist/socialism mass housing suburbs dating from the 70th and 80th of last century, planned according to the fundaments of CIAM. Due to the enormous housing shortage the suburbs were built in an immense scale and in a fast tempo resulting m...

During the many stays with my family in law in Poland, I created a fascination: What is the future of the communist/socialism mass housing suburbs dating from the 70th and 80th of last century, planned according to the fundaments of CIAM. Due to the enormous housing shortage the suburbs were built in an immense scale and in a fast tempo resulting most of the time in poor quality of building and public space. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

The rapid transformation from communism to capitalism resulted in the neglecting of public space and buildings. The sudden lack of top-down control and the natural sense of irresponsibility among the society were the “ingredients” of this negative change. Increasing car ownership and the shortage of common interests resulting from the newly created diversity of property ownership increased the problem of neglecting.

Do these communistic planned neighborhoods, at the end, have the flexibility to incorporate changes of the transformation to a capitalist system? Or has the “expire-date” of these state planned neighborhoods been reached and can’t be a part of an “initially” confronting social system? During my final thesis I’m trying to create a strategy how to deal with these transformation that have enormous impact on people daily life and there environment.