Miasto bez schematu. Plany komunikacji miejskiej i rozwój Warszawy
A City without its transit map. Public transport plans and the development of Warsaw

Summary/Abstract: Warsaw lacks a single general transit map with an easily recognizable graphic form. The article, presenting a cultural and historical approach to the issue, points out contemporary substitutes for such a scheme and analyzes two twentieth-century cases of the public use of city plans as maps of public transport networks. Since these are practices of boasting of successes in mod- ernizing the capital city while its shortcomings are concealed, the analysis provides a pretext for reflecting on the city’s spatial and infrastructural development. The argument runs in the context of the legacy of modernism, the Athens Charter and critique of motor transport in cities.

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