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The Greenery of Early Modernist Housing Estates: The 1919–1927 Wałbrzych Agglomeration

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  • Bogna Ludwig

    (Department of Architecture Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Landscape, Faculty of Architecture Wrocław, University of Science and Technology, 50-317 Wrocław, Poland)

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Using the Wałbrzych agglomeration housing estates—once the most important mining and industrial region in Lower Silesia—as an example, this article illustrates the specific significance of the design of green spaces, including urban layouts, and the issue of protecting unique trees and green spaces in the concepts of estates from the early modernism period after the First World War in the years 1919–1927. This article tries to deepen the knowledge on the origins of the design solutions of public and private greenery systems while considering natural, landscape, and social needs. This study complements the information gathered so far in the field of forming green areas in modernist housing estates and highlights the importance of this issue in complex urban design. The Wałbrzych housing settlements are crucial because they were among the first of their kind, not only in Lower Silesia but also in the whole of the Weimar Republic. Based on literature and source studies, it was possible to reconstruct design ideas concerning the composition of green areas in most housing estates in the discussed area. The most interesting ones were presented and broken down into the landscape-related and functional aspects of the use of greenery in housing estates. This made it possible to select specific solutions applied by designers in order to indicate sources of inspiration and theoretically developed rules which then and now seem to be extremely adequate.

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  • Bogna Ludwig, 2021. "The Greenery of Early Modernist Housing Estates: The 1919–1927 Wałbrzych Agglomeration," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-23, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:7:p:3921-:d:528612
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