NOWA HUTA: CAN THE "MODEL CITY" BE REBUILT?

Nowa Huta, Poland, was developed in the early 1950s as a new residential city with a unique design to house steel mill workers and their families. In the city, several districts were built around a center square where pedestrians could walk without ever having to cross a major road. The city had its own railway lines, electric power plant, gas supply and other necessary infrastructure industries. Over the years, the steel mill has downsized, and the area is now Central Europe's largest brownfield. The underutilized land in Nowa Huta could hold more than 200,000 homes as well as commercial activities, but such redevelopment would be difficult. This article discusses the challenges the Polish government faces in any brownfield redevelopment effort. Privatization, unemployment of the aging steel mill workers, potentially serious environmental contamination and financing are primary issues that need to be considered. The article suggests a framework for categorizing existing brownfields in order to determine the priority for redevelopment efforts.

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  Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

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• Authors:
  • Hook, W
  • Garb, Y
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 16-18
• Serial:
  • Sustainable Transport
  • Issue Number: 14
  • Publisher: Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
  • ISSN: 1536-2523
  • Serial URL: http://www.itdp.org/ST/index.html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Brownfields; Financing; Infrastructure; Land use; Privatization; Redevelopment; Strategic planning; Unemployment; Urban design
• Geographic Terms: Nowa Huta (Poland)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00935763
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 18 2003 12:00AM