%0 Journal Article %T The concept of living. A housing estate as the mirror of time %A Hrehorowicz-Gaber, Hanna %J Technical Transactions %V 2015 %R 10.4467/2353737XCT.15.382.5001 %N Architektecture Issue 12-A (27) 2015 %P 273-284 %K housing estate, social bonds, Kraków, urban space %@ 0011-4561 %D 2016 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/czasopismo-techniczne/article/the-concept-of-living-a-housing-estate-as-the-mirror-of-time %X The contemporary shape of the housing estate does not promote development of social bonds. No other pro-social movement in the whole history of urban space has changed so much in the traditional cityscape as the modern avant-grade of the 19th and early 20th century. The situation in urban planning and design at that time was similar to other fields of science. The period brought a change in understanding beauty in art and architecture, and modernism strongly emphasised functionalism, rational and utilitarian values of the living environment of man.