Description
Wooden or sheet-metal huts, discarded railway carriages and caravans, as well as abandoned brickworks and caves, all became makeshift homes for Prague’s impoverished inhabitants during the First Republic. Emergency colonies existed in Na Krejcárku, Střešovice, Veleslavín and many other locations. In the second half of the 1920s, more than two dozen such colonies reportedly stood on Prague’s outskirts and sometimes near the city centre; at the beginning of the 1930s, around 15,000 people lived in them. Although the city authorities recognised the connection between this phenomenon and the housing crisis, they found no solution. This new volume in the Vanished Prague series uses a wealth of photographs to capture not only the beginnings of these colonies, but also their survival after the Second World War. In many places, their remains are still visible today.
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Author: Dolejský Martin, Platil David
Language: Czech
Publication date: May 7, 2025
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Paseka s.r.o.
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Books, History and facts
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 199
ISBN/EAN: 9788076373372