Postwar Warsaw, a reconstruction from Canaletto's painting and the socialist conceptions

Abstract

Warsaw, after the strong oppression suffered during the Second World War, conducted a thorough process of urban, social and political restructuring. Since 1944 (with the entry of the Soviet army liberating the city), until 1970, there was a complete restructuring of urban traces. In fact, it could clearly identify the various co-existing ideologies in the new urban plan. This article aims to show how the process envisioned prior to the commencement of the destruction of the city was "drawn" in a revamped urban structure. The regeneration of the city made cohabit with socialist theories conservation concepts or ideas from the modern movement, including urban inquiries emerged in Poland by 1920. From these lines, the graphics redefinition can read these ideological concepts struck in the urban recovery of the stigma caused by the war, conceiving a concept dilute city away from the prewar compact city.

Keywords

• varsovia
• posguerra
• movimiento moderno
• socialismo
• ciudad histórica
• definición gráfica