COP and the City. Modernity and heritage
Richly illustrated catalog of the jubilee exhibition under the same title, which aims to spread knowledge about the Central Industrial District, but above all about the ideas that guided its builders.
CID meant modernity, it was a hope for a better life, unfortunately squandered by the outbreak of World War II. However, for the “CID cities” it still remains an important, and sometimes as in the case of Stalowa Wola – the basic building block of local identity and an element of cultural heritage – tangible and intangible. The residue of the CID is the buildings of the cities, residential buildings, public buildings and factory edifices. It is the basic components of urban infrastructure, such as water and sewage systems. It is roads and green spaces. And also, and perhaps above all, there is a certain ethos, a spirit, an unfinished story, which today is interpreted and developed through various initiatives, with which the terms innovation, entrepreneurship, progress, invention, sustainable development, among others, are associated….
The exhibition “CID and the city – modernity and heritage” is intended by its title to encourage reflection on the dialogue between these two seemingly completely separate concepts and fields. Above all, however, it is intended to encourage the search for an answer to the question of how the construction of the CID relates to today’s world, what analogies and differences exist between what happened 80 years ago and what is taking place today.
Format: 232 x 158 mm; pp. 160; soft binding with wings
out of print
