A Herman Ottó Múzeum évkönyve 48. (2009)

Hajdú Ildikó: Acélváros (Társadalom és építészet kölcsönhatásában)

WEINER Tibor 1959 Sztálinváros. SÓS Aladár-FARAGÓ Kálmán-HERMÁNY GézaKOROMPAY György (szerk.): Sztálinváros, Miskolc, Tatabánya. Városépítésünk fejlődése, 17-88. Műszaki Könyvkiadó. Budapest 2006 (1951) Sztálinváros, szocialista város. A városépítés módszere. Építés Építészet, 11-12. FEHÉRVÁRI Zoltán-HAJDÚ Virág-PRAKFALVI Endre (szerk.): Modem és szocreál. Építészet és tervezés Magyarországon 19451959. 589-598. Magyar Építészeti Múzeum. Budapest TÖRVÉNYEK FORRÁSA: 1000 év törvényei. In: http://www. 1

000ev.hu/index.php'?a=3&param=8264 STEEL CITY - INTERACTION BETWEEN SOCIETY AND ARCHITECTURE The political and ideological changes following World War 2 brought changes in social and political thought, and also led to new arrangements in all wakes of life. Following the rebuilding activity of the first Three Year Plan, the ensuing five year plans targeted industrialisation and the rapid, dynamic development of industrial production. Miskolc became one of the country's major commercial and industrial centres in northern Hungary, sometimes called the Ruhr region of Hungary. With its initial population of 60,000, Miskolc soon grew into the second most populous Hungarian city and within a few decades, the city became an industrial centre. In 1951, the Urban Planning Office (VÁTI) made plans for a city housing a population of 350,000. The city's population increased five-fold and the grey housing estates, which still define the cityscape, mushroomed on the former vineyards and along the roads leading from the smaller settlements around Miskolc to the city. This period saw major changes in the attitudes to space among the newcomers to the city and the residents already living there. They had to re-interpret the spaces and the newly created buildings on their personal virtual map, to re-draw the former setting of their memories and their earlier life, while the perceptible rise in the number of new residential buildings led to changes in their own personal environment. The occupation of the new spaces and their domestication called for new individual strategies even if the city's residents paid little conscious attention to these in their daily life. How does an artificial environment, the drastic changes in the environment influence the individual and the community? What type of interactions can be noted between the individual and the environment? Do the changes in the personal environment influence individual thought and action? The answers to these general questions vary depending on the historical, geographic and socio-political situation. The study offers a broad overview of these questions in relation to Greater Miskolc and the "Steel City". Ildikó Hajdú