The current municipal historical policy of Gdańsk focuses on two major museum projects purported to be a unique embodiment of the city’s cultural heritage. Their underlying narrative, which is told from the European perspective, is based on two great events of the 20th century and seems to disregard the cultural heritage recorded in the urban structure of the city centre. However, it is precisely this urban structure that exerts the strongest influence on the local identity of Gdańsk’s citizens and the quality of their life. So far the discourse on architecture in Gdańsk has been shaped by the dualistic debate between “tradition” and “modernity”, founded on the division into pre-war and post-war developments. This approach does not take full advantage of the possible ways of reading the cultural heritage of Gdańsk, and should be replaced by at least three narratives: those of the historic city, of Prussian Danzig, and of Polish Gdańsk. Only a proper interpretation of the cultural heritage embodied in the urban structure of the city centre can serve as a foundation for a new and more mature municipal and spatial policy in Gdańsk.
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- Category
- Publikacja w czasopiśmie
- Type
- artykuły w czasopismach
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2017
