Głogów’s historic Old Town was almost completely destroyed during a seven-week bombardment by the Russians in early 1945. Immediately after the war, only 500 Poles lived among the ruins, and the remains of the city’s historic buildings became a source of building materials for the emerging Nowa Huta and Tychy districts, as well as for the rebuilding of Warsaw. In the 1970s, an idea emerged—though unrealized—to develop the former Old Town with modernist apartment blocks and skyscrapers. In the 1980s, a group of young architects associated with the SARP branch in Legnica prepared a concept, and later a spatial development plan based on it, in accordance with the retroversion method. This concept envisages the reconstruction of historic architecture while maintaining the street and quarter layout, but in a new, postmodern form. The reconstruction of the Głogów Old Town using the retroversion method continues to this day.