‘I Live in The Line’ Is No Match for ‘I’m from around Żyrardów’
According to Tadeusz Markowski, a professor at the InterdisciplinaryCentreStudiesMunicipal University of Łódź, the duopolis process is already underway. Warsaw is growing in the direction of Łódź. Warsaw residents already live in Żyrardów. Perhaps they want to live in the New Centre Łódź? Especially since the prices of apartments in Łódź are much lower than in the capital.
Everyone has already spoken on this topic, and years ago. Enthusiasts, cautious and skeptics have spoken out. You can scroll these statements in any direction (https://plus.dzienniklodzki.pl/Duopolis-Begins-to-create-in-our-eyes/ar/c3-14710965;
https://pdm.irmir.pl/narzedziownik/lad-przestrzenny-i-urbanistyka/duopolis-lodzi-i-warszawy), although you will admit that we are right that we have not yet seen a reporter who is sharp enough to ask the experts from "What is all this really supposed to mean?". Maybe you should look among those who are proficient in the commedia dell'arte politico convention (i.e., for example, among those who managed to ask the incoming participants what they mean by such an attractive-sounding word as the "strategy" discussed at subsequent Cabinet Councils convened by the President of the Republic of Poland). They are supposed to "be" about strategic investments of the Republic of Poland.
However, if one were found, it was torn through the procedures and barriers protecting our Authorities, probably the most common reaction of the respondents would be sincere surprise. Like this, everyone knows what it is Strategy And how important is it to "have" it?
Meanwhile, this word from the beginning, since antiquity, unambiguously defining someone who commands, and at the same time is also very ambiguous. There is nothing strange about it, because the commander should have more than one idea, more than one talent, more than one virtue (Virtus). Only then "is the bravest" And others will listen to him. Modernity prefers to explain strategy by military (Clausewitz) juxtaposition it with tactics (Tactica ratio, ars, doctrina, disciplina, From Greek. Tássein – Set, organise). This explains the combination little, strategy is something that is planned on a larger map. One that looks great in the media in the middle of the Cabinet. Who will turn out to be just a tactic after the next Cabinet Council, and who will be a strategist – political commentators will explain to us for many days.
Are substantive issues important for such a political spectacle? Let's gullible that yes. One of the key issues is the design of the Central Communication Port.
From the perspective of Łódź, this is an addition to the issue mentioned at the beginning, which has been underway for the last two decades Duopolis, development of urbanized architectural fabric in the lane adjacent to railway and road connections between Łódź, Koluszki, Skierniewice, Żyrardów, Warsaw. Name Duopolis Must annoy Varsovians, even those living in Żyrardów.
It was intended to be a large urban project, a mirage exposed to the free developer market. If they are willing, if they believe in the consistent density of the connection network, reducing the travel time between the listed cities, they can invest in land and then tempt for years with lower prices.
If there is a place in Central Europe for a large intercontinental airport and a distribution point of goods in global circulation, it can significantly increase the chances of many jobs in the area, in the "sincere field", as they write about Baranów. Let's keep our fingers crossed that in the aforementioned Cabinet there will be at least a few heads capable of dealing with strategy. In addition to access to reliable intuition data, this requires the ability to quickly verify stereotypes, supposedly even a slight detachment from circumstances. Łódź as a city emerged from such efficiently calculated madness that no one in the area has ever seen before. Łódź still has a weakness for the avant-garde. Can it matter in the Cabinet?
I hope.
Today, the obvious context for such an urban compaction along the line is the Saudi project announced in 2022: The Line, a city-block stretching along the coast for 170 km, about 200 m wide and over 400 m high (https://architektura.info/architektura_zrownowazona/zielone_innowacje2/the_line_miasto_w_arabii_saudyjskiej). The work started immediately in 2022, the effects are expected to be visible around 2030. Access to finance for fantasy in Poland and Saudi Arabia are two different worlds.
It is worth remembering that it can be the same with innovation. Instead of referring to Arab mirages, it is worth firmly, realistically, when arguing (I think serious Cabinets should be used for this) about the "CPK" project to remember the concept Linear Continuous SystemOscar Hansen's ego from the 1960s. In the People's Republic of Poland, it ended up building several dachshund blocks in Lublin's housing estates and the longest dachshund - opposite the Warszawa Wschodnia station. You still live in them not bad. Maybe a clearer reference to this still surprising concept from the romantic-avant-garde phase of the People's Republic of Poland will help to make a good decision on the CPK?
Even the problem of immigrants, which is burdening the entire European Union, having to find work somewhere in Europe, housing, to feel at home in the small scale of the city of 15 minutes, can be attributed to such a scale of investment. Hannah Arend's famous definition of Eastern Europe as a "mixed population belt" could be filled with new content around the mid-21st century. Well, but for this you need a flash of strategy, not just tactical countering the calculation of political opponents.
For those who are panickingly afraid of the influx of "aliens" it may be helpful to imagine that only a stranger, "Not from here" They will be able to get used to the most symbolic effects of such an investment: with the simultaneous cheering for clubs from opposite ends of such a freak. For the locals of the great-grandfather, it is unimaginable.
In cheerful fairy tales, the Cabinet Council should end with a request to CouncilsPolish Language At the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences for a recommendation on what to do with the name Żyrardów. Shouldn't we use her deeply Slavic spirit to promote the entire project? "I live in The Line" has no chance with "I'm from the Żyrardów area". In our reality, it will end with a tactical clash and the perors of economists who very easily forget that big changes come not only from the accumulation of capital, but also from emotions and dreams (dreams from the Żyrardów area?).
Complete utopias https://teatrnn.pl/leksykon/artykuly/oskar-hansen-linearny-system-ciagly