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Tychy is the largest of the so-called "new towns" in Poland and was built from 1950 to 1985, to allow for urban expansion in the southeast of the Upper Silesian industrial region.
The new town was built to provide good housing for the miners of Upper Silesia; it is completely residential and well-sited, with Lake Paprocańskie at one end and a large park at the other. The new and old towns are under one administration.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Tychy was created as the embodiment of the new socialist princi-ples of urbanisation and architecture. The new city of Tychy (to-gether with Jastrzębie Zdrój located in the southern part of Silesia and the new town of Nowa Huta, erected near Cracow) was used by the authorities to reinforce the supremacy of socialism as a
FROM SOCIALIST TO POSTMODERNIZM. The city was expanded after the war - the housing estates in Tychy were designed by outstanding architects who implemented new technological and construction solutions. Tychy is worth visiting as a textbook example of the development of post-war architecture.
Tychy originated as a small agricultural settlement near the medieval trade route connecting Oświęcim and Mikołów. It was mentioned in historical documents for first time in 1467. In the 17 th century, Tychy was one of the richest villages of the Pszczyna district.
Although the ubiquitous Tyskie beer has become one of the most recognisable Polish exports (not to mention the reigning king of domestic brews for almost 200 years), few visitors to Poland realise its name is actually derived from the very Silesian town it has been brewed in since the 17th century: Tychy. This now-thriving Silesian suburb is ...
The Polish city of Tychy was chosen as the subject of this article for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is one of the most interesting examples of a 'new socialist city',
