Tag: Gdansk

• April 3, 2017

  Falowiec: landscape of communism in Gdansk, Poland.

  I have recently been walking around “Falowiec” (form the Polish word fala, wave; plural: falowce) in Gdansk, the longest building in Europe. It is a block of flats characterised by its length and wavy shape. This type of building was built in Poland in the late 1960s and 1970s in the Polish city of Gdańsk,…

• April 13, 2016

  Gentrification of a postsocialist old centre in Gdansk, Poland

  Yesterday, walking from industrial area in the surrounding of Gdansk until the historic old center. It was worth photographing the difference in terms of housing in hardly half a kilometer, as well as the contrast between old industrial sites by the river and the new real state that is being raised. The river side is…

• April 13, 2016

  Postsocialism and postindustrialism: how outsourcing and offshoring boom is transforming Gdansk city, Poland

  Gdansk city is emerging as the next outsourcing city. As many other mid-size cities in the country in the last decade, as well as the capital Warsaw did since 1990, the city is harbouring a increasing number of multinational corporations that aim to outsoource certain business process. In a preious post I echo a very interesting…

• September 30, 2015

  “The European City in Transformation: Urban politics and urban planning in a postsocialist city”

  Abstract This book analyses postsocialist urban policy. The focus lies on the question of how certain it is that postsocialist Eastern European Cities are approaching the Model of the classic “European City“. The city of Warsaw was chosen as case study. Based on the neo-weberian approach developed by Le Galès, the author defines the characteristics…