ABSTRACT
After some years of de-ideologization of cultural landscapes, recent years have brought, especially in right-populist governed Poland, a new wave of re-iconography. Production, constant readjustment, and restructuring of cultural landscape in the contemporary city become the permanent, perpetual mechanism and integral part of our everyday life. Tracing the differences and dissimilarities between non-socialist and post-socialist urban landscapes and development patterns have been core foci of this synthesis. The production of new layers of meaning and different interpretations of post-socialist landscape is an ongoing process. After the rapid conversions of the early 1990s, the process of landscape reinterpretation has recently either settled down or entered another phase. The emancipated post-communist landscape quite evidently reflects the objectives, abilities and contradictions of society. The patchwork landscape characterizes the urban life of the post-socialist cities. The landscape of socialist triumphalism and egalitarian parity was inhabited and used by the masses, and usually designed and created despite their needs and expectations.
