Marxism in the built environment in Poland: its contribution and legacy

Gorzym-Wilkowski Waldemar A. ()
Additional contact information
Gorzym-Wilkowski Waldemar A.: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Space Management, Department of Spatial Policy and Planning, al. Kraśnicka 2cd, 20-728 Lublin, Poland

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 2017, vol. 36, issue 36, 95-106

Abstract: Due to its tangible character, the built environment constitutes a lasting evidence of past and present socio-economic phenomena. In Poland, these phenomena were developing for several decades according to the principles of Marxist ideology and its consequences. As a result, the built environment in Polish urban and rural areas was shaped by Marxist concepts and the resulting realities of centrally planned economy. Multi-family housing projects, vast and neglected post-industrial areas and monotonous, styleless buildings in rural areas are the main remnants of the period of what was known as “real socialism”. The effects of Marxism on the built environment in Poland are mostly negative in economic and social terms, and the efforts to eliminate these effects often fail to improve the situation. Therefore, the legacy of Marxism in Polish space will still be visible for many years to come.

Keywords: Marxism; Poland; space; built environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0017 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:buogeo:v:36:y:2017:i:36:p:95-106:n:7

DOI: 10.1515/bog-2017-0017

Access Statistics for this article

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series is currently edited by Daniela Szymańska

More articles in Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().