Londzina street in Zabrze: architecture and urbanism between the city and the ironworks
Londzina street in Zabrze: architecture and urbanism between the city and the ironworks

Summary/Abstract: The paper investigates the urban evolution of Londzina Street in Zabrze, Poland, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines how municipal and private heavy-industrial efforts shaped the city’s development, highlighting the tension between traditional compact urban quarters and the emerging garden city concept. The paper conducts research on urbanism, architecture and history through historical analysis, cartographic review and spatial interpretation. It explores Zabrze’s spatial structure, as a miners’ village and then a town; the garden city concept’s influence on worker estates in England and Germany; and the functional and spatial conflicts during urban formation. The study reveals that industrial enterprises, not municipal authorities, were the primary drivers of modern urban planning solutions in Zabrze, challenging conventional views of city formation in Silesia.

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