NOWA HUTA , Poland — Regarded as a prime example of socialist realist architecture, the settlement of Nowa Huta represents Communist-era Poland’s vision of the city of the future. Founded in 1949, it ...

Once a failed post-WW2 utopia, Krakow's Nowa Huta neighbourhood has found a new lease on life and is slowly emerging as a tourist destination. Few countries emerged from World War Two as devastated as ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If any place could give socialist realism a good name it is the planned city of Nowa Huta. With its wide ...

Postwar Britain got Basildon, Hemel Hempstead, Runcorn, Milton Keynes, Cwmbran and East Kilbride. But Poland got Nowa Huta. Born of the same era that gave Britain the NHS and the modern welfare state, ...

There is a district in Kraków which used to be a separate town. Its name is Nowa Huta. It was supposed to be a 'godless town', however churches were built there. Most Poles associate Nowa Huta with ...

A statue of Vladimir Lenin has returned to a Polish town which was constructed by the communists in the hope of it becoming a proletarian bastion. But instead of striking a dramatic pose designed to ...

Located next to a thriving river, Nowa Huta’s lands are fertile and well irrigated, making it a prime location for agricultural production. To maximize the land’s potential, Basic City A+U partnered ...

The design for the Nowa Huta of the Future focused on the exploitation of the close relation to the nature and the nearby river landscape, fresh food supply from the local agriculture production ...