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Modernist Housing Estates – Examining the Conditions of Redevelopment of Outdoor Space. The Case Study from Łódź, Bałuty

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The focus of the current paper is the form of outdoor space in Modernist housing estates. I examine relationships between urban health and liveability and forms of urban structures. The goal is to define the quantitative and qualitative features of the urban environment that influence the liveability of these places and evaluate their impacts. I look at forms of open spaces and their organisation. Special attention is paid to the qualities of green infrastructures (GI) and the characteristics of built structures. Modernist theoretical thinking attributed a lot of attention to assuring proper insolation thanks to the provision of ample space between buildings. However, the implementation of these ideas often lacked consistency. With time, the initial provision of green landscaped recreational space imagined by designers became replaced by congested parking lots. Once proposed as safe and cosy, actual resulting places proved windy and often isolated. In the current article, I examine the details of two housing estates located in Bałuty in Łódź. The objective of this analysis is to propose recommendations on how to improve the current situation and, at the same time, the living conditions of local residents.

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Hanzl, M. (2022). Modernist Housing Estates – Examining the Conditions of Redevelopment of Outdoor Space. The Case Study from Łódź, Bałuty. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Misra, S., Rocha, A.M.A.C., Garau, C. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022 Workshops. ICCSA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13382. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10592-0_27

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