Gated Community vs. Großwohnsiedlung: Identitätskonstruktionen in städtebaulichen Auseinandersetzungen einer Transformationsgesellschaft am Beispiel von Warschau-Ursynów

Since the 1990’s, new housing estates in Warsaw have predominantly been developed in the form of gated communities, many of them using unbuilt areas in large pre-fabricated housing estates from the socialist era. As a consequence, extreme polarization between different settlement types in close proximity with one another can be observed. Since the turn of the millennium, an intensive debate in the…