The issue of the rebuilding of cities in the Polish press discourse during the First World War and Polish-Soviet war

The subject of this article is the discussion about the rebuilding of cities in the press of the Kingdom of Poland during the First World War and the Polish-Bolshevik war. This almost eight-year period was characterized by the constant appearance of reflection on the devastation of war and the necessity of rebuilding and reforming of Polish cities. In the public discourse of those times, there were some recurring themes that should be considered a testimony to the importance of this problem for contemporary people, but also to the modernizing nature of their dilemmas and comments at the time. The most important of them is the nationalist tone of the writers combined with the conviction that it is necessary to develop a new architectural model of the Polish city. This period was, therefore, a subsoil for the development of the “country house style”, so characteristic of the public architecture of the Interwar Poland.