“The holes in the ground. Patodeweloperka in Poland” Łukasz Drozda is an intriguing book to interest a reader delicate to problems of Polish housing. However, it does not supply him with ready-made prescriptions to effort to halt patodeveloper combinations, abuses and scams.
The book of Łukasz Drozda was recommended to me in the library – I rented it without thinking, due to the fact that I wanted to learn more about the patodeveloper than can be read in the media circulation. The column kind of the author is accessible and not boring. Drozda skillfully describes his speech with examples of life, and the curiosity of the reader makes the book read highly quickly. The title holes are simply sold to customers for large money tiny apartments in blocks that only be on visualizations – even before the first spade in the Mazowieckie meadow or the Kraków hill.
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In the course of reading the reader, however, there are doubts.
The author's stories about the examples of the patodevelopers are tasty, anecdotal, and bulging, but do not form a structured argument from which deeper cognition can flow.
Rather, they are divisions on various topics related to irregularities of the Polish housing market, good for the cycle of columns, but not necessarily adequate for the book. “The holes in the ground...” are not an organized analysis of the processes of the emergence of the Polish housing market, nor do they supply examples typical of Poland from the Baltic to the Tatras. Rather, it is simply a collection of anecdotes that can confirm the reader's reluctance to any developers and builders (for example, Józef Wojciechowski's company is described extensively and critically), from among the poems it is easy to read the views of the author. Drozda does not hesitate to mention the names of the well-known politicians associated with an intra-development manufacture – Barbara Blida or Andrzej Halicki.
Paradoxically, “The holes in the ground. Patodeweloperka in Poland” besides provides cognition on how to circumvent construction law. The provincial developer can shout while reading – oh, this cool number I didn't know! Drozda's book is simply a bit like a crime scene where crimes multiply, and there is simply a deficiency of a police officer or a detective to face a crime.
The good ideas for housing policy are hard to include, for example, the cited ideas of Joanna Erbel, a socialist utopia, on blocks with tiny properties, but with a large common space. It never works! The reader would like to learn more about the mechanisms for expanding the price of services and construction materials, the causes of the failure of subsequent government programs to improve the availability of housing, and he receives loose divisions and a reasonably uneven weight selection of examples illustrating further problems.
Who can I urge to “holes in the ground...”? surely people who are completely unaware of what is presently being done in Polish housing. possibly besides local politicians should not be so eager to associate with patodevelopers due to the fact that it will harm their image. possibly students of sociology, architecture, spatial economy, in their student works creatively and scientifically make a signaled theme. Certainly, those who consider buying an flat on the basis of beautiful, marketing slogans and visualization of flat buildings like propaganda brochures of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Luke Drozda, holes in the ground. Patodeweloperka in Poland, Czarne Publishing House, 2023
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