A failed Communist utopia embraces its past – Nowa Huta
column by Rachel Keeton
In a series of six episodes, the International New Town Institute (INTI), based in Almere, the Netherlands, explores unusual aspects of rapidly developed settlements across Europe. Rachel Keeton reports on the district Nowa Huta, planned as a model Communist city in 1949. Situated on the outskirts of dangerously liberal Kraków, the location made sense ideologically, but proved to be misguided.
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