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  Krakow Nowa Huta
Nowa Huta to dzielnica, będąca wyróżniającym się i stojącym w opozycji wobec reszty miasta, punktem na mapie Krakowa.
W początkowych założeniach Nowa Huta miała być niezależnym, socjalistycznym miastem, a przez umiejscowienie dzielnicy w okolicach Krakowa miało znaczenie polityczne i miało być uderzeniem w "tradycyjne, konserwatywne środowisko krakowskie".
Nowa Huta dorobiła się już miejsc kultowych, takich jak Cepelia - Centrala Przemysłu Ludowego i Artystycznego,prowadzącego szereg spraw związanych z twórczością ludową i artystyczną.
www.e-krakow.com /e-krakow/nowa-huta   (977 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Nowa Huta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Nowa Huta was started in 1949 as a separate town near Kraków on terrain resumed by the Communist Government from the former villages of Mogiła, Pleszów and Krzesławic.
Nevertheless, Nowa Huta's role in the transformation of post-war Poland and the construction of socialism was not straightforward.
Nowa Huta stands at the forefront of communities facing the challenges of post-socialism, in need of radical economic restructuring and experiencing profound social and political transformations.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nowa-Huta   (269 words)

  
 Nowa Huta travel guide - Wikitravel
Nowa Huta is a district of Krakow in Poland.
The area of Nowa Huta was a fertile countryside landscape in the Middle Ages.
Nowa Huta became the first atheist district in Poland, and it was not until the 1970s when the first church was built there and sanctified by then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II.
wikitravel.org /en/Krakow/Nowa_Huta   (405 words)

  
 Krakow/Nowa Huta - Wikitravel
Nowa Huta is a district of Krakow in Poland.
Nowa Huta reently became one of the top tourist destination in Krakow as a post communist district with very tipical socrealistic architecture.
The area of Nowa Huta was a vertile countryside landscape in the Middle Ages.
www.wikitravel.org /en/Krakow/Nowa_Huta   (389 words)

  
 Socialist Realism at Its Finest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Nowa Huta's downtown is of particular interest to the three young men.
Nowa Huta is a manifestation of the most important of the socialist principles that ruled the political, social, and artistic day during the 1940s and 1950s in Poland.
Nowa Huta was built strategically near Krakow to undermine that city's formidable intellectual profile and strong anti-communist traditions.
www.tol.cz /look/TOLrus/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=21&NrSection=1&NrArticle=748&ALStart=30   (519 words)

  
 Cracow | Guide | Nowa Huta | Krakow
Nowa Huta, however, seemed like a shrewd investment to its benefactor, the goodly Comrade Stalin - the city was to be a gift to Russia's new Socialist brothers - a model for his brave new world.
No churches were planned at Nowa Huta, and aristocratic palaces are not in abundance, (although as it turned out, several down-at-heel grandees ended up living there after being deprived of their properties in the Old Town).
Nowa Huta is indeed so loaded with mind-boggling contradictions that it might well have been the product of a novelist's imagination.
www.cracow-life.com /poland/krakow-nowa-huta   (685 words)

  
 Łukasz Trzciński, Lukasz Trzcinski
Nowa Huta, the new factory, was constructed as a city for the blue collar workforce in the early 1950's - a pioneering project for Communism in Poland.
In this way, Nowa Huta would form a workers' opposition to the intelligentsia, and thousands of young people from all over Poland came to this original housing and factory development, consisting principally of the Lenin steelworks.
Nowa Huta had a special task to stay modern throughout, a Communistic city without God, with the biggest communist party organization in Poland.
www.lukasztrzcinski.com /contact_sheet.php?s=4   (262 words)

  
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The history of the land on which Nowa Huta was constructed dates back to times much more remote than the history of the city of which it became a part.
Nowadays this socialist part of Nowa Huta has started to arouse interest and there is a chance that it will become one of the tourist attractions of Cracow, one of many, but a unique one.
Nowa Huta needs to be seen in a much wider context, rejecting all ideological prejudices because only such an attitude can guarantee its appreciation as a phenomenon of the past and present.
www.nh.pl /english   (444 words)

  
 ESRC Society Today - R000223246 Living in the Spaces of (Post-) Socialism: The Case of Nowa Huta
Since 1989, Nowa Huta is increasingly seen as a place of insecurity and declining mobility.
The social support networks and feelings of attachment individuals have to Nowa Huta should be built upon to counter the negative effects of political, economic and social transformation.
To attract tourists, Nowa Huta must draw attention to its socialist urban planning and Stalinist architecture -; the very characteristics it is derided for in other circumstances.
www.esrc.ac.uk /ESRCInfoCentre/Plain_English_Summaries/governance_and_citizenship/structure/index168.aspx?ComponentId=9652&SourcePageId=11746   (809 words)

  
 Courrier international, UN HAUT LIEU DU SOCIALISME RÉEL • Nowa Huta, son aciérie, ses lieux branchés
Nowa Huta a été découvert il y a peu de temps, par les artistes tout d’abord, qui ont investi les lieux en apportant dans leurs valises des projets sociaux qui allaient prendre forme avec la participation des habitants.
Nowa Huta est le seul endroit de Pologne où l’on est obligé, pour repeindre les bâtiments, d’utiliser les couleurs d’origine.
Dans le cadre du projet “J’habite ici”, des habitants de Nowa Huta ont apporté des objets du quotidien pour raconter leur propre histoire.
www.courrierinternational.com /article.asp?obj_id=66283   (1260 words)

  
 hidden europe magazine - Articles - hidden europe 1 (March 2005) - steel, Stalin & socialism
Nowa Huta may be just a few miles from the jewel of Kraków, but it is quite another world.
When Nowa Huta was established after World War II, it set out to be everything that Kraków was not: assertively proletarian, industrial and anti-intellectual.
Nowa Huta looked to renaissance and classical architecture for inspiration, and lifted more than a few ideas from Italian city planning aesthetics and the English garden city movement.
www.hiddeneurope.co.uk /article_info.php?articles_id=20   (360 words)

  
 Łukasz Trzciński - fotografia
Nowa Huta-strictly a workers' city-was built in the early 1950's as a leading construction project of communism in Poland.
Nowa Huta had a special task to stay modern through and through, a communistic city without God, with the biggest communist party organization in Poland.
The inhabitants forced the authorities to build churches, and from the year 1980 onward, Nowa Huta started to be a bastion of anti-communism.
moda.com.pl /foto/trzcinski/~strony/trzcinski.phtml?strona=huta.i   (254 words)

  
 Stuttering off to see Krakow's hidden Socialist treasures, Leisure, Germany, Expatica
The distraction is short-lived however, as Anna steers the pride of East German carmaking towards Nowa Huta, the residential workers' area, eight kilometres outside the city centre.
"Nowa Huta was Stalin's present to the Polish workers", Anna explains.
"Nowa Huta" (New Steelworks) became the name of the first socialist city to be built on Polish land.
www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=56&story_id=23699&name=Stuttering+off+to+see+Krakow%27s+hidden+Socialist+treasures   (1078 words)

  
 Nowa Huta: Viele Informationen uber Nowa Huta an aligisassu.it
Nowa Huta: Viele Informationen uber Nowa Huta an aligisassu.it
Nowa Huta (deutsch Neue Hütte) wurde 1949 war als Standort eines Eisenhüttenkombinats östlich von Krakau gegründet.
Nowa Huta sollte als Planstadt der sozialistischen Ideologie folgen.
www.aligisassu.it /n/no/nowa_huta.html   (190 words)

  
 globalinfo.org - Apr 18, POLAND (#49793)
NOWA HUTA, Poland, Apr. 18, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Originally a communist showcase and later a bastion of anti-communism, the Stalin-era model city of Nowa Huta is now being stigmatized by Poles who depict it as Krakow's criminal hub.
Nowa Huta was planned so as to make schools, health care and stores easily reachable for residents.
Nowa Huta turned into a site of recurrent demonstrations and clashes with the authorities, and the illusion and hope of the 1960s and 1970s was replaced by anti-communist resentment in the 1980s.
www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=49793   (888 words)

  
 Interrelationship between the basic character of human rights and development of traditional technologies
The Nowa Huta steel factory is a classical example of industrial development being determined on the principles of the authoritarian system.
Apart from that, the Nowa Huta steel factory is the source of huge amounts of solid wastes, some 4 million tons per year, accounting for more than 70 per cent of solid wastes in the region.
Unlike the Nowa Huta steel factory, where the modernization of technological processes took place mainly through the purchase of modern equipment abroad, the textile industry involves a considerable amount of autonomous technological development generated in indigenous scientific and research centres.
www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/uu08ie/uu08ie0k.htm   (4185 words)

  
 Teart Łaźnia Nowa - About Łaźnia Nowa Theater
It is placed in Nowa Huta – the youngest and the most mysteriuos district of the city.
Nowa Huta always used to evoke such radical emotions.
In Łaźnia Nowa we want to create a place where actors and inhabitians of Nowa Huta are both feeling good...
www.laznianowa.pl /laznia/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=265&Itemid=77   (374 words)

  
 SN 4713 -Living in the Spaces of (Post-) Socialism: the Case of Nowa Huta, 1945-2001
Using a range of ethnographic and discursive methodologies, the relationship between the town of Nowa Huta (literal translation ‘New Steelworks’) in Southern Poland and the wider socio-economic transformations of the last fifty years was considered.
Nowa Huta played a key part in post-war reconstruction both as the home of Poland’s largest steelworks and by being promoted as the nation’s first socialist town.
Secondly, the impact of these large-scale economic and social transformations was examined in the context of everyday life and work in Nowa Huta.
www.esds.ac.uk /findingdata/snDescription.asp?sn=4713&key=labour   (332 words)

  
 The real socialism in Krakow - Nowa Huta - tours - Krakow Tourist Service, hotels booking in Cracow
Nowa Huta was considered a gigantic experiment of social engineering.
Lots of songs and poems were written about Nowa Huta - a new district of Cracow, an example of social growth for the working class.
On a base of Nowa Huta you will learn about the actual economic and social situation based on a new system of real capitalism: unemployment, development opportunities, church, youth subcultures.
www.cracow-travel.com /program49   (262 words)

  
 Nowa Huta
Nowa Huta (literally New Steel Mill) - is the easternmost district of Kraków.
Nowa Huta was started in 1949 as a separate town near Kraków.
It was planned as a huge centre of heavy industry.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/n/no/nowa_huta.html   (287 words)

  
 Le réalisme socialiste à Cracovie- Nowa Huta - tours de ville - Service Touristique de Cracovie, Réservation ...
Nowa Huta était considérée comme une gigantesque expérience de l’ingénierie sociale.
On écrivit de nombreux poèmes et chansons sur Nowa Huta - nouveau quartier de Cracovie, exemple de développement social pour la classe ouvrière.
A partir de l’exemple de Nowa Huta, vous découvrirez l’actuelle situation économique et sociale fondée sur un nouveau système capitaliste : chômage, développement des opportunités, situation de l’Eglise et jeunes subcultures.
www.visite-cracovie.com /program69   (269 words)

  
 Communism Tours | Nowa Huta | Krakow
Nowa Huta was one of only two Soviet 'ideal cities' ever to be built.
Focused on the gargantuan 'Lenin Steelworks' (Nowa Huta literally means 'New Steelworks), the project was executed miles from either ore or coal.
The reasons for this curious move can be understood in relation to Cracow's reputation as a bourgeouis bastion of traditionalism - the communists were keen to offset this fustiness with a new working class community - ultimately it backfired.
www.krakow-tours.com /nowa-huta.php   (388 words)

  
 Nowa Huta
Nowa Huta is a town that was built for socialism, founded in 1949 and centred on Poland’s first integrated steelworks, yet was also central to socialism’s collapse in Poland.
The research examined the ways in which life and work in Nowa Huta have not only been shaped by the construction and contestation of socialism and by nascent capitalism but have also shaped those processes of change.
The website will continue to be developed as the dissemination progresses but is intended to function as an introduction to Nowa Huta and, more broadly, to studies of post-socialist transformation at the scale of the everyday.
www.nowahuta.info   (329 words)

  
 References | Crazy Guides | Krakow Tours | Communism Tours | Krakow Sightseeing | Cracow Sightseeing | Cracow Tours | ...
Nowa Huta is a place with cult appeal, to say the least.
Built as a monument to socialism, Nowa Huta became a centre for everything it was supposed to quash: resistance, religion and revolution.
Hailing mostly from the agricultural south of the country, Nowa Huta’s new settlers were deeply religious people who battled against communist doctrine for 20 years and eventually won their right to build a church.
www.crazyguides.com /crazy_tour_references.html   (1396 words)

  
 The Questia Online Library
Nowa Huta's locale was ideal for several reasons.
Because of its subsequent damaging ecological impact, Nowa Huta is often seen as a sinister environmental polluter, whose single goal was literally to dissolve the historic city of Krakow, the acknowledged cultural, intellectual, and spiritual capital of pre-communist Poland.
Nevertheless, a sizable majority of air and water born pollutants discharged at Nowa Huta avoid the city all together (prevailing winds are easterly, and Nowa Huta is northeast of Krakow; Nowa Huta also lies down river from Krakow along the Vistula) and Krakow's pollution problems stemmed more from...
www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5002344679   (535 words)

  
 Muzeum Historyczne Krakowa - o muzeum
It contains temporary exhibitions related to the history and monuments of Nowa Huta, the youngest district of Krakow.
The museum in Nowa Huta collect all the objects from the present as well as before the city and the factory have been created (year 1949), related to this district.
The employees of this branch are working on the architecture and town planning of the "old" part with the Main Square of the Nowa Huta district, on the oldest steel mill facilities of the area.
www.mhk.pl /english/oddzialy_nhuta.php   (479 words)

  
 Nowa Huta
Nowa Huta [] (deutsch Neue Hütte) ist ein Arbeiterstadtteil im Osten von Krakau in Polen mit etwa 200.000 Einwohnern.
Trotz der guten und schnellen Verbindung in das Zentrum Krakaus, besucht ein Bewohner Nowa Hutas durchschnittlich 2 Mal im Jahr die Stadt Krakau; Grund hierfür ist, dass Nowa Huta als eigene Stadt geplant war und daher alle Versorgungseinrichtungen besitzt.
Aus den oben genannten politischen Gründen wollte das kommuistische Regime eine religionsfreie Stadt; der damalige Erzbischof von Krakau, Karol Wojtyła, jedoch erreichte in langwierigem, passiven Widerstand 1977 die Fertigstellung eines Gotteshauses.
www.p-p-p.de /Nowa_Huta.html   (223 words)

  
 POLAND: Socialist Model City Fights for a Future
NOWA HUTA, Apr 18 (IPS) - From communist showcase to bastion of anti-communism, the Stalin-era model city of Nowa Huta is now being stigmatised by Poles who depict it as Krakow's criminal hub and a place without a future.
Construction of Nowa Huta (New Steel Mill), now a district north-east of Krakow, a city of 1.4 million about 300km south of capital Warsaw, began in 1949 as authorities of then People's Republic of Poland decided to build an autonomous model city around the Lenin Steel Works.
Nowa Huta was planned so as to make schools, health care and stores easily reachable for residents, and soon cultural centres, theatres and sports facilities were added to provide it with the infrastructure of a large city.
www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=37389   (1029 words)

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