Western Front of the City Centre of Gdańsk An Urban Conservation Study

The western front of Gdańsk’s city centre is the key fragment of a ring road scheme, which was created at the turn of the 20th century during the great transformation of the city. It was at that time that new streets and squares were delineated on the site of the early modern earthen bastions, which for more than three centuries marked Gdańsk’s border. The new city development was set up in their surroundings. In 1945, Gdańsk was destroyed and attempts at its redevelopment were undertaken after the war. The majority of the prepared designs were not implemented at all or were implemented fragmentarily only, which led to a visible degradation of the western front, which currently functions mainly as a thoroughfare.