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The paper illustrates the role played by historic workers’ housing estates in the process of development of towns and cities of the Upper Silesian Agglomeration (Poland) and their current situation, as the most endangered element of the identity of the cultural landscape of this region. The paper provides the typology of spatial solutions of the housing estates, prepared on the basis of in situ studies. It demonstrates their distinctness from post-war block development of Upper Silesian landscape. The Upper Silesi...