ABSTRACT
The authors raise an issue of creation common spaces in the post-war multifamily housing areas in Poland, and how does those common spaces affects on life quality of inhabitants. The subject of studies covers three housing estates in Warsaw, Cracow and Lublin, created between 1940s, 1950s, 1960s in the context of the present trends of transformation and preservation of their spatial, natural and architectural values The article will both present examples of well-functioning, common green areas in multifamily housing complex and also will indicate what are main problems associated with badly solved or lack of common green spaces. Presented residential settlements has derived from the idea of the ‘garden city” by Ebenezer Howard. This idea has determined the shape and space quality of those settlements, makes them still attractive places for living.
