Re-use of Industrial Heritage as an Element in Achieving Urban Resilience, Adaptation of the Textile Industry into a Shopping Centre, Lodz, Poland

Lodz is the fourth most populous city in the country, located in central Poland, a former center of the textile industry, which has a significant amount of valuable post-industrial heritage. This article presents an example of the adaptation of a complex of 19th-century industrial buildings (the former Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański cotton mill) for commercial functions. The article presents the history of the place and how a new function was implemented on the territory of a former factory with an area of 270,000 m2 and in former industrial buildings with an area of 9,000 m2. The methods of adaptation to the new function at different hierarchical levels are described – from the level of the city’s master plan to individual industrial buildings and their details. The article presents archival cartographic materials in combination with the changes made and describes different approaches to preserving a historical building. The change is an example of a commercial investment that contributed to the popularization of post-industrial heritage and became an element of building a city brand, emphasizing its post-industrial identity. It is also an element of building a city's resilience that can transform and adapt to changing external conditions.