TY - JOUR N2 - The article connects two issues: the city as text and neoclassical trends in urban design in the second half of the 20th century. These issues are presented on the examples of ideal cities: Washington 2000 – a design of Leon Krier, Nowa Huta and the residential complex of Ricardo Bofill in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. As a continuation of the ideal European city Shanghainese Lingang is presented designed by GMP. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/93456/mainfile.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/93456 PY - 2015 IS - vol. XLIII EP - 250 KW - ideal city narrativity A1 - Szpakowska-Loranc, Ernestyna PB - Oddział PAN w Krakowie DA - 2015[2015.01.01 AD - 2015.12.31 AD] T1 - City as text. Classicist ideal cities from the second half of the 20th century and contemporaneity SP - 233 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/93456 T2 - Teka Komisji Urbanistyki i Architektury Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Krakowie ER -