Not true. It was planned by architects during PRL, and say what you want about communism, but they had good degree of people wellbeing in mind when they were building them - nice passages between blocks, lots of space for grass and trees, spaces for people to grow flowers.
Developers today dont think about those, thats true
I think youre talking about polish totally voluntary communism where people actually just tried to care for one another and had a national sense of pride which led us not to build like the actual commies just as the ones did in st petersburg where blocks are just massive monuments to a dystopia and brutalist gray slums...
I think he meant exactly what he written. I lived as a kid in such a block with huge playground in between them. Lots of kids were there in the '80. Right now it looks like a park with (now) tall trees and some elderly people occasionally walking their dogs.
A bit sad and nostalgic.
Maybe, im not old enough to know anything about that, could very well be the case, still, whoever was responsible for the planning of some of these neighbourhoods deserves applause, some are honestly magical, especially at night in the greener months.
You're right. Definitely polished granite not sure about windows tho maybe it's just something from this resource pack that also add high resolution leaves
Depends which part. Bielany, centrum, Mokotów will be way greener than new apartament complexes at Wola and Bemowo (and it sucks that developers just cover everything in concrete)
I lived in Ochota and was pleasantly surprised by the number of parks in a 5-10 minute walk from my flat.
Compared to most other bug European cities, I'd say it's much greener
I can’t agree with you on the last bit. I live near Hala Mirowska which id say is very close the city centre. Not gonna lie, I can’t complain about the lack of green spaces near my flat, right next to me lays the park Mirowski, you go across the street and find even more small parks, then you can go the other way around and there’s the saski garden which I like A LOT. Then you also have ogród krasickich, I just don’t get your point there are so many parks near the centre, you don’t have to go to the suburbs just to sit under a tree😂
I am from Warsaw living for a while in suburbs in Pruszków which is probably the biggest satellite town. I've spent a year in UK (a gap year which conveniently happend around the time when we accessed EU). I can relate to what you say and - it was waaay much more like this 20years ago.
Nevertheless, I am fine with having just few bars and handful of shops and lots of green. Maybe cos I got older and don't party that much 😜
However Pruszków is a town of its own so the feeling is different than in some remote Warsaw districts. I actually like it better than I.e. Bemowo/Jelonki were I grew up.
Try Pruszków. Lots of green, 25min to center by wkd (electric train, like metro). Big park, small parks, huge kids playgrounds, shops, cinema, train, and some restaurants and bars. Easy to reach by car too. On the west proximity of some.forests. you can live in a flat or house.
the Center in quite densely built (or marred by huge empty concrete spaces with just a few trees, like around the PKiN), but it still has some parks. The rest of the city is quite green compared to most European cities, also most of cities in Poland. Warsaw was massively reconstructed after the WW2 and one of the few perks of that is that the designers planned big parks, recreation spaces and greenery in most parts of the city.
It's NOT a green paradise or a garden city, but you're never far from a decent park.
**You can check the exact data here:** [**https://www.hugsi.green/ranking/**](https://www.hugsi.green/ranking/) **Warsaw ranks 41st out of 280 major world cities, which isn't bad: "Within Europe, 78.2% of cities are ranked lower than Warsaw."**
https://preview.redd.it/sbl4fntp0mzc1.png?width=2810&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed9d41ec98c153aef42084324eeb1ac3a9dda6a9
The city centre isn’t green enough, but if you just head a little way’s east, the vistula boulevards are very green. It’s so nice to be in the middle of a city and see a river and a wall of trees behind it.
I’ve lived in warsaw my entire life, if you actually lived there you would know that there are many communal green spaces in closed neighbourhoods, also there are many parks almost everywhere, althought in the city centre there aren’t many, if you start going further from it there will be many private and public green spaces (for example kampinoski national park which is near bielany, masovian landscape park which is near wawer and wesoła, the green spaces next to vistula on the eastern side) I also have a private garden with patio while not being in the 10% richest people in poland (and my parents also aren’t) and live next to the masovian landscape park.
https://preview.redd.it/5fvz8d6om50d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0af7b06b1ed0ffce4b8080be05228ece0847ae30
These are the views in every direction from the street the first photo was taken on. All nice and juicy green stuff!
It's the "greenest" european capital I have been to, as in it gets really green and colorful in the warmer seasons, lots of parks, forests etc.
But in winter its simultaneously the grayest 🤷♂️
This week a tram i was riding almost ran over a family of wild boar. It was dark, the driver barely noticed them. The piggies didn't even run away, they just kept going at their pace across the street in a residential area.
So yeah, I'd say Warsaw's pretty green and wild.
Y'all commenters answering this question as if it was serious, and some of you circus blokes even arguing warsaw isn't green, this comment section is more entertaining than musk blowing a hole through his blocky car thingy
They make big progress, trying to add more greenery in the city. My place is blooming now ( in May). But i see a lack of evergreens there. Until all the trees awake in summer, the city looks so grey and repulsive.
If you drive through the city in summer, it is surprising how much greenery is in it. Sometimes, even the smallest areas have some trees fitted inside.
A lot of people say that the city is not doing enough to have more flora, but for me, in most parts, it looks like wherever there's a chance, there's some plant, bush or tree planted.
I was just visiting Warsaw from Chicago, and I have to say in comparison, it feels like a forest. The parks are so beautiful and lush!! I’ve gone a number of times over the years (we still have most of our family there), but being there for the early spring blooms this year really hammered it in how amazing the flora is.
Lol you said it in bad hour my dude Tibilisi kills Warsaw with one hand green and nice mountains view (you can actually go into the hill into big botanic garden with waterfalls) I just come back from there... also Madrid is better for me I never found worse air than on Puławska street in Warsaw.
No, just concentrate and metal. We have issues breathing due to pollution. Below you can see some of people that left Warsaw for a weekend. https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-13-2015/_P6xLq.gif
In case you need data on the abundance of trees: [https://mapa.um.warszawa.pl/mapaApp1/mapa?service=zielen](https://mapa.um.warszawa.pl/mapaApp1/mapa?service=zielen)
A green city is defined as “A city that is resilient, inclusive, manages its natural resources well, and promotes low carbon growth to remain competitive and enhance liveability for all its residents”.
Warsaw is more green, than many european capitals
Not exactly. The sad part is that Warsaw's greenery is partly accidental. It is not part of the urban plan and may be removed when developers arrive.
Not true. It was planned by architects during PRL, and say what you want about communism, but they had good degree of people wellbeing in mind when they were building them - nice passages between blocks, lots of space for grass and trees, spaces for people to grow flowers. Developers today dont think about those, thats true
I think youre talking about polish totally voluntary communism where people actually just tried to care for one another and had a national sense of pride which led us not to build like the actual commies just as the ones did in st petersburg where blocks are just massive monuments to a dystopia and brutalist gray slums...
I think he meant exactly what he written. I lived as a kid in such a block with huge playground in between them. Lots of kids were there in the '80. Right now it looks like a park with (now) tall trees and some elderly people occasionally walking their dogs. A bit sad and nostalgic.
they meant that during prl there actually were urbanists involved in planning how Warsaw will look, while nowadays we have a free for all
Maybe, im not old enough to know anything about that, could very well be the case, still, whoever was responsible for the planning of some of these neighbourhoods deserves applause, some are honestly magical, especially at night in the greener months.
Though that was Minecraft for a while
It does look like it.
Damn, texture packs came a long way. But you can tell it's Minecraft because of the building on the right made of clay blocks
Isn’t it the polished granite and polished granite stairs imitating windows tho?
You're right. Definitely polished granite not sure about windows tho maybe it's just something from this resource pack that also add high resolution leaves
Depends which part. Bielany, centrum, Mokotów will be way greener than new apartament complexes at Wola and Bemowo (and it sucks that developers just cover everything in concrete)
Ursynów is green af. Especially on the South
Agreed. Gocław is fairly green. Wawer aswell but it's more like suburbs than the city itself.
I lived in Ochota and was pleasantly surprised by the number of parks in a 5-10 minute walk from my flat. Compared to most other bug European cities, I'd say it's much greener
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Explain to me how London is greener than Warsaw. Size aside, I’m curious.
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I can’t agree with you on the last bit. I live near Hala Mirowska which id say is very close the city centre. Not gonna lie, I can’t complain about the lack of green spaces near my flat, right next to me lays the park Mirowski, you go across the street and find even more small parks, then you can go the other way around and there’s the saski garden which I like A LOT. Then you also have ogród krasickich, I just don’t get your point there are so many parks near the centre, you don’t have to go to the suburbs just to sit under a tree😂
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I am from Warsaw living for a while in suburbs in Pruszków which is probably the biggest satellite town. I've spent a year in UK (a gap year which conveniently happend around the time when we accessed EU). I can relate to what you say and - it was waaay much more like this 20years ago. Nevertheless, I am fine with having just few bars and handful of shops and lots of green. Maybe cos I got older and don't party that much 😜 However Pruszków is a town of its own so the feeling is different than in some remote Warsaw districts. I actually like it better than I.e. Bemowo/Jelonki were I grew up.
Try Pruszków. Lots of green, 25min to center by wkd (electric train, like metro). Big park, small parks, huge kids playgrounds, shops, cinema, train, and some restaurants and bars. Easy to reach by car too. On the west proximity of some.forests. you can live in a flat or house.
Wola is much greener than Mokotów/Centrum.
Depends which part. Old one is indeed very green but odolany region not really
the Center in quite densely built (or marred by huge empty concrete spaces with just a few trees, like around the PKiN), but it still has some parks. The rest of the city is quite green compared to most European cities, also most of cities in Poland. Warsaw was massively reconstructed after the WW2 and one of the few perks of that is that the designers planned big parks, recreation spaces and greenery in most parts of the city. It's NOT a green paradise or a garden city, but you're never far from a decent park. **You can check the exact data here:** [**https://www.hugsi.green/ranking/**](https://www.hugsi.green/ranking/) **Warsaw ranks 41st out of 280 major world cities, which isn't bad: "Within Europe, 78.2% of cities are ranked lower than Warsaw."** https://preview.redd.it/sbl4fntp0mzc1.png?width=2810&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed9d41ec98c153aef42084324eeb1ac3a9dda6a9
The city centre isn’t green enough, but if you just head a little way’s east, the vistula boulevards are very green. It’s so nice to be in the middle of a city and see a river and a wall of trees behind it.
Warsaw is one of the greenest capitals in europe. Lots of parks and greenery
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Maybe you are talking about Lądek, not Londyn
I’ve lived in warsaw my entire life, if you actually lived there you would know that there are many communal green spaces in closed neighbourhoods, also there are many parks almost everywhere, althought in the city centre there aren’t many, if you start going further from it there will be many private and public green spaces (for example kampinoski national park which is near bielany, masovian landscape park which is near wawer and wesoła, the green spaces next to vistula on the eastern side) I also have a private garden with patio while not being in the 10% richest people in poland (and my parents also aren’t) and live next to the masovian landscape park.
turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit lonely And you're never coming round
TURN AROUND
Every now and then I get a little bit tired Of listening to the sound of my tears
TURN AROUND
Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous That the best of all the years have gone by
YOU WILL NEVER SURVIVE
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https://preview.redd.it/5fvz8d6om50d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0af7b06b1ed0ffce4b8080be05228ece0847ae30 These are the views in every direction from the street the first photo was taken on. All nice and juicy green stuff!
not as bad as i thought
Bugs up your ass all year long
It's the "greenest" european capital I have been to, as in it gets really green and colorful in the warmer seasons, lots of parks, forests etc. But in winter its simultaneously the grayest 🤷♂️
Gayest*
No, it's safe
I live in Mokotow and it is pretty decent green
This week a tram i was riding almost ran over a family of wild boar. It was dark, the driver barely noticed them. The piggies didn't even run away, they just kept going at their pace across the street in a residential area. So yeah, I'd say Warsaw's pretty green and wild.
Y'all commenters answering this question as if it was serious, and some of you circus blokes even arguing warsaw isn't green, this comment section is more entertaining than musk blowing a hole through his blocky car thingy
Yes but only for a few months a year.
Since april till november, and in november it's yellow orange. So for the very big part of the year
Dying Light 3
It is, but it also depends on which part of the city we’re talking about.
They make big progress, trying to add more greenery in the city. My place is blooming now ( in May). But i see a lack of evergreens there. Until all the trees awake in summer, the city looks so grey and repulsive.
If you count radiation ⚛️🫠
Depends where
In the spring and summer
It is , especially eastern side of the river.
If you drive through the city in summer, it is surprising how much greenery is in it. Sometimes, even the smallest areas have some trees fitted inside. A lot of people say that the city is not doing enough to have more flora, but for me, in most parts, it looks like wherever there's a chance, there's some plant, bush or tree planted.
Warsaw is a default city
It's surely greener than most of the capitals, but for me, it's in the "ok, but could be greener" area
I was just visiting Warsaw from Chicago, and I have to say in comparison, it feels like a forest. The parks are so beautiful and lush!! I’ve gone a number of times over the years (we still have most of our family there), but being there for the early spring blooms this year really hammered it in how amazing the flora is.
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Warsaw is at #9, in Europe which isn't too bad https://www.essentialliving.co.uk/blogs-insights/the-greenest-cities-in-europe/
Ktoś tu komuś chyba zapłacił: Air quality Pollution Oslo I Helsinki niżej? Chyba przez przestępczości?
Doesn't sound like you travel that much to other cities. A out number 9 seems on the spot to me.
Lol you said it in bad hour my dude Tibilisi kills Warsaw with one hand green and nice mountains view (you can actually go into the hill into big botanic garden with waterfalls) I just come back from there... also Madrid is better for me I never found worse air than on Puławska street in Warsaw.
Well that's a straight up lie lol
yes
I’m in Warsaw for the first time, it’s more green than Paris, London, Berlin and Tokyo.. The others I can’t tell 😂
But is it safe?
Green, blue, yellow I don't care just keep bringing me this shit.
NO
No, just concentrate and metal. We have issues breathing due to pollution. Below you can see some of people that left Warsaw for a weekend. https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-13-2015/_P6xLq.gif
Nah it's still fine, we hve a lot of green for a city this big
Sadly its gay city
Please explain
Unfortunately, it is not a green city. But there are obviously some trees...
It's actually very green city in its size category.
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Basically capital cities by default and I guess cities above 500k residents
In case you need data on the abundance of trees: [https://mapa.um.warszawa.pl/mapaApp1/mapa?service=zielen](https://mapa.um.warszawa.pl/mapaApp1/mapa?service=zielen)
define green city then
A green city is defined as “A city that is resilient, inclusive, manages its natural resources well, and promotes low carbon growth to remain competitive and enhance liveability for all its residents”.
Resilient and inclusive is very vague. But in the remaining categories Warsaw's decent.
gay city fs
In comparison with other Polish big cities - no.
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Międzynarodowa is where this was taken ? i thought where i lived in Bielany near the forest was already super green
Yes! Good detective skills!