List of Planned Cities - Poland

Poland

  • Borne Sulinowo – former German military base; then Soviet secret city; and, since 1993, Polish town
  • Elbląg
  • Głogówek
  • Gdynia
  • Łódź
  • Nowa Huta – showpiece of Polish socialist realist-era urban planning; now incorporated into the royal city of Cracow
  • Starogard Gdański
  • Tychy Nowe Tychy, New Tychy *Ursynów
  • Zamość – a UNESCO World Heritage Site; the result of the opulently wealthy Polish Chancellor Jan Zamoyski's financial empire; modeled on Italian-Renaissance theories of the "ideal city" and built by the architect Bernardo Morando; a perfect example of late-16th-century Renaissance urban-planning ideals

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Famous quotes containing the word poland:

    “It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
    —Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)