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The current UN and EU policy highlights building a society for all ages and avoiding of segregation of various generations in local environment. In my paper I would like to present how the material shape of urban architecture influences relations between generations. The article is based on the case study I conducted in some chosen places of Warsaw, using the theoretical prospect of the sociology of architecture. I analyzed public spaces and quasi-public buildings in the context of their both communicative and phy...

In my article I show how – based on existing architecture and some kind of urban nostalgia – a new definition of a social value and a new idea of architecture have been created. The paper grounds on qualitative research I conducted in Warsaw, Poland, in 2013 (IDIs in Polish with key opinion leaders, social activists, NGOs, writers, etc. approaching an increasing phenomenon of a wide interest in modernist architecture). I reflect on both: ways of creating the new perception and its results.