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Magdeburg seems to be a particular example illustrating complex urban processes of the post-war development of Central and Eastern Europe. Devastations of the Second World War are still visible in the multiple aspects of the city life – its spatial form, social aspects, cultural heritage and others. Post-war 'cleaning phase' exceeded the regular debris removal and caused further elimination of city heritage. Continued within the next decades rebuilding processes, especially under the Socialist Realism impact, transformed the new plan into a patchwork derived from alien urban patterns, neglecting and erasing previous identity. The 1990-ies commercial aspects contributed to further changes, unfortunately also redeveloping the city centre into one-use form. Unwanted urban qualities resulted after 1990 in the enormous shrinkage, followed by the vast demolition of the housing areas. The paper refers to the postrevitalisation aspects of the IBA Saxony-Anhalt 2002-2010 and further involvement of the Kompetenzzentrum Stadtumbau projects. The recent workshops have driven the attention to the housing heritage of the 1920-ies, which became the topic of the revitalization workshop prepared by international teams from University of Applied Sciences at Dresden (a coordinator), Università degli Studi di Padova, Cracow University of Technology, Lahti University of Applied Sciences and Szent István Egyetem University in Budapest. The program was coordinated by Kompetenzzentrum Stadtumbau Magdeburg with the collaboration of the Ministry for Regional Planning and Traffic of Saxony-Anhalt and the City of Magdeburg. The part of the paper presents various aspects of revitalization of the "Cracau Estate", the proposal involves traffic calming aspects and social participation.
Kinga Racoń-Leja (Sat,) studied this question.