Łódź obiecana... Czy tylko żart futurystyczny?

Abstract

Theoretical model of contemporary city of postindustrial epoch today and anticipated in close and further perspective of future, must be based on culture model and its substantial element. In consequence this potential must be used in each individual case ascity creatingenergy. In analyses, forecasts and area development plans and strategies of its development, city of Łódź as a result of negligence in sphere of investment and revitalization as well as lack of rational concepts of development, became a subject of pro tempore strategies, actions and seasonal visions of its own future. At present pop culture reality constitutes dingy background for still current content and ideas promoted by Łódź and Polish art and architecture avant-garde of the 1930s constructivism. These ideas arestill being up-dated and their spectrum expanded by European neo-avant-garde, and that is evidence oftheir culture creating ambitionsin the context of culture treated holistically. This problem nowadays touches upon symbiosis of it with nature and a human in relation with space. Degradation of urban building stockand dehumanization of surroundinggo on. Ideas of a city – garden preserving today its cultural identity need to be recalled from the history of the 19thcenturyŁódź. This aspect is subject toscrutiny and attempts to define urban spaceagain and is to be found among the othersin the curriculum of Landscape Design team in Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning of Technical University of Łódź.