During the Warsaw Uprising obrona Starówki była najcięższym epizodem; according to German data, an average of people died here every day 200 Polish soldiers i 150 German. The Old and New Towns shared the fate of Warsaw. Bombed and burned out, stayed after 1945 year largely demolished. W 1949 year władze komunistyczne ogłosiły decyzję o odbudowie Starówki, which was intended to give credibility to the regime in the eyes of a society reluctant to the new power. Biuro Reconstruction of the Capital has developed a plan for the reconstruction and development of the Old and New Towns as new residential districts with pseudo-historic architecture. On the preserved layout of blocks and plots from the 15th- 18th century, and with the preservation of street names from the end of the 18th century, powstały dwa nowe osiedla mieszkaniowe Zakładu Osiedli Robotniczych (ZOR): Old Town (patch 1949-1953) i Nowe Miasto (patch 1952-1954) with a completely changed social composition (new flats were handed over mainly to the cultural and intellectual elite of that time, writers, among others, painters, actors). Both housing estates were designed by arch. Mieczysław Kuzma and his associates: Stanisław Brukalski and Piotr Biegański. It arose together 139 tenement house (74 In the old town) with a total cubature 460 thousand m3. Shaped as “romantic” pseudo-monuments, partially reconstructions, they have facades changed compared to those existing before 1944 a year or enriched, prepared by the Team of Artists and Designers under the supervision of Jan S.. Sokołowski. The courtyards have been transformed into intimate patios with greenery. The interiors of the houses have been designed with contemporary functions in mind. Both teams form the so-called. The Old Warsaw Route as part of the new urban layout of the so-called. “Of socialist Warsaw”. The silhouette of the complex from the side of the Vistula River has been shaped as an artistic dominant of the new urban landscape. The reconstruction of the Old Town was completed in 1963 year, a w 1980 in the year they were entered into the UNESCO World Cultural Property Register.