Warsaw Housing Cooperative City in Action

This book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow. It describes the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative not as a historical relic or a single case study, but instead analyses th

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Magdalena Matysek-Imielińska

Warsaw Housing Cooperative City in Action

The Urban Book Series Editorial Board Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, UK Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, UK Simin Davoudi, Planning & Landscape Department GURU, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK Geoffrey DeVerteuil, School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Andrew Kirby, New College, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA Karl Kropf, Department of Planning, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK Karen Lucas, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Marco Maretto, DICATeA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Parma, Parma, Italy Fabian Neuhaus, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Vitor Manuel Aráujo de Oliveira, Porto University, Porto, Portugal Christopher Silver, College of Design, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Giuseppe Strappa, Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Roma, Italy Igor Vojnovic, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Jeremy W. R. Whitehand, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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Magdalena Matysek-Imielińska

Warsaw Housing Cooperative City in Action

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Magdalena Matysek-Imielińska Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Science Institute of Cultural Studies University of Wrocław Wrocław, Poland Translated by Monika Fryszkowska Introduction and Conclusions translated by Marcin Starnawski The translation into English was financed by the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Science University of Wrocław

The English version of the work is an extended and revised version of “Miasto w działaniu. Warszawsk