Warsaw: Devastation, Modernization, (Re-)privatization, dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, Heft 72 (3/2018)
Warsaw is a city that has experienced radical breaks in its development over the last century, which are still relevant and visible in many different ways today. There is the Nazi occupation, the crushing of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the subsequent systematic and almost complete destruction of the city; and more recently, the shift from a state-socialist to capitalist system. The new issue of dérive, entitled »Warsaw: Devastation, Modernization, (Re-)privatization«, sheds light both on these historical components and their impact on contemporary urban society – e.g. on the housing market. In addition, we talk to people who are self-organizing and working on alternative solutions that resist current socio-political conditions. The focal point is entirely in English. You can order it here: https://shop.derive.at/collections/einzelpublikationen/products/heft-72
Warsaw is a city that has experienced radical breaks in its development over the last century, which are still relevant and visible in many different ways today. There is the Nazi occupation, the crushing of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the subsequent systematic and almost complete destruction of the city; and more recently, the shift from a state-socialist to capitalist system. The new issue of dérive, entitled »Warsaw: Devastation, Modernization, (Re-)privatization«, sheds light both on these historical components and their impact on contemporary urban society – e.g. on the housing market. In addition, we talk to people who are self-organizing and working on alternative solutions that resist current socio-political conditions. The focal point is entirely in English. You can order it here: https://shop.derive.at/collections/einzelpublikationen/products/heft-72
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ANDRZEJ GÓRZ AND WOJTEK MATEJKO INTERVIEWED BY LISA PUCHNER<br />
Creating spaces<br />
for free thought<br />
and FREE activities<br />
All about a once long-forgotten site in central <strong>Warsaw</strong><br />
Public Space, autonomy, sustainability,<br />
cooperation, housing,<br />
accessibility, <strong>privatization</strong>, valorization<br />
Photo — Adrian Grycuk<br />
Jazdów is a site to the south of <strong>Warsaw</strong>’s city centre where the initiative<br />
Open Jazdów offers a social, cultural and ecological public programme. It is<br />
well known for the small wooden houses (Finnish houses) erected there after<br />
World War II. For decades the area was all but forgotten by the city council,<br />
until about six years ago when it took the decision to dismantle the houses<br />
and destroy the surrounding gardens. Today the houses are still there. Lisa<br />
Puchner from <strong>dérive</strong> spoke to Andrzej Górz, who lives at the site, and Wojtek<br />
Matejko, who works there, about the history of the place, the threat of<br />
demolition and plans to rescue Jazdów and the Finnish houses and develop a<br />
non-commercial and autonomous space for the people of <strong>Warsaw</strong>.<br />
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<strong>dérive</strong> N o <strong>72</strong> — WARSAW. <strong>Devastation</strong>, <strong>Modernization</strong>, (<strong>Re</strong>-)<strong>privatization</strong>
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