Między ruralizacją miasta i „urbanizacją przyrody”. Historia środowiskowa okupowanej Warszawy
Between Ruralization of the City and “Urbanization of Nature”. An Environmental History of Occupied Warsaw

Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts to answer the question about the place of plants and urban greeneryin Warsaw during the occupation and post-war period. The theoretical framework isdetermined by the environmental history of the war. The author describes ruralization ofWarsaw during the occupation, and the fate of trees in urban forests and gardens and parks,which became depleted or destroyed as a result of the war and overexploitation. These spaces are called by Chris Pearson as “scarred landscapes”. An important point of referenceis the pre-war and post-war vision of modernizing the city, in which plants occupy animportant place in the spatial planning sphere. Moreover, the paper discusses thephenomenon of “urbanization of nature”, determining in this period of what belongs tothe accepted sphere of “nature” in urban space.

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