The paper presents the outline history of Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Automation of the Gdansk University of Technology over the span of 60 years - throughout the period 1945-2006.

The article is aimed to answer the question how, depending on the historical heritage, the collective memory, the physical space of the city and their images were shaped, through the politics of memory. All known cultures and languages distinguish the ‘self’ and the ‘other’, ‘us’ and ‘them’. Neither do we know cities which wish to differ in some particular way, although they can have numerous identities. Their multitude and diversity...

The urban structure of Gdansk city centre is determined by two ring road complexes. The first of them, the Gdansk Ring, has been created as a result of a city defortification at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and has been destroyed in the end of World War Two with the rest of Gdansk. The second, the Main Town Green Belt, has been formed in place of the medieval fortification system of the city’s most important historical...

24 maja 2020 roku minęła 75 rocznica przekształcenia Politechniki Gdańskiej w polską państwową szkołę akademicką. Decyzja dotycząca odbudowy Politechniki i rozpoczęcia nauki po zakończeniu działań wojennych została podjęta na początku 1945 roku. W dniu 5 kwietnia 1945 r. przybyła do Gdańska delegacja Ministerstwa Oświaty, której zadaniem było zabezpieczenie, zorganizowanie i uruchomienie opuszczonej politechniki. W październiku...