TRANSFORMATION OF LIVING SPACE IN THE UPPER SILESIAN PATRONAL SETTLEMENTS (Zmeny obytneho priestoru v hornosliezskych robotnickych stvrtiach)

• Authors: Gnieciak Monika
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Upper Silesia is becoming an industrial region highly influenced by the spatial organization of urban areas. The strongest connection between industry and everyday life is retained in old labour districts, such as Nikiszowiec - the former mining settlement in Katowice. The houses ('Familoki') were built of specific red bricks in those labour districts. Their inner layout was standardized and based on the suite of rooms with a huge kitchen - the place, where the whole family's life was centred. Furthermore, another type of settlements was found in conurbation of Upper Silesia - the latter ones, built after Second World War as multi-dwelling housing estates. One of them is Tychy, the largest of the so-called 'new towns' in Poland, designed as housing background for native and immigrant labour population.

Keywords

EN

SOCIAL FLATS; UPPER SILESIA (POLAND); URBAN SOCIOLOGY

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 28-43
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gnieciak Monika

• Monika Gnieciak, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland, www.uet.sav.sk/slovenskynarodopis.htm

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA064811