Science in Central and Eastern Europe / Academia Natalia Otrishchenko ORCID: 0000-0003-3942-0005 Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine) n.otrishchenko@lvivcenter.org Looking Forward, Looking Back: Re-Connecting of Urban Planning Education in Lviv Abstract The article outlines the development of a new network as- sembled by the Chair of Urban Planning at the Lviv Polytechnic institute after the collapse of the USSR. It focuses on the actions of individual people who contributed to institutional changes and used various resources to create and maintain a set of connections. The tradition of urban planning education in Lviv begins with a Chair of Urban Planning created in 1913 at Lviv Polytechnic. However, after WWII and the incorporation of the city into the Soviet state, Lviv Polytechnic went through radical changes. Urban planning was restored as an architectural sub-specialization only in 1966, while a separate department of architecture was organized only in 1971. PUBLICATION INFO e-ISSN 2543-702X ISSN 2451-3202 DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS CITATION Otrishchenko, Natalia 2022: Looking Forward, Looking Back: Ways of Re-Connectng Urban Planning Educaton in Lviv. Studia Historiae Scientarum 21, pp. 485–514. DOI: 10.4467/2543702XSHS.22.015.15981. RECEIVED: 12.10.2021 ACCEPTED: 3.06.2022 PUBLISHED ONLINE: 26.08.2022 ARCHIVE POLICY Green SHERPA / RoMEO Colour LICENSE WWW htps://ojs.ejournals.eu/SHS/; htps://pau.krakow.pl/Studia-Historiae-Scientarum/archiwum