Komunikacja trolejbusowa a krajobraz kulturowy miasta Tychy

Abstract

The article presents an outline of trolley-bus transportation in Tychy, as well as selected elements of the cultural landscape of the city extending along trolley-bus lines. The trolley-bus routes provide the possibility to get to know a city unique in its kind - designed and consistently developed as a city with a dominating residential function. The space development of Tychy reflects all urban and architectural tendencies realized in Poland after World War II, from socialist realism characteristic of the 1950s, through prefab high-rises, to developed single- and multi-family apartment complexes. Travelling by trolley-bus allows one to familiarize themselves with the architecturally and functionally diverse housing complexes that create the unique landscape of the city designed to be a sleeper city for the Upper-Silesian Industrial Region.