There was necessarily a lot of simplification and abstraction required to make the map. I thought I would just enumerate some of its faults:
1. Trying to calculate how many times a certain district has been built and rebuilt is a tricky process. Do I count from the first recorded settlement? The first permanent settlement? The first recorded brick buildings? As well, reconstruction, especially of brick, is an ongoing event- it could also be called maintenance. Below is a picture of maintenance work at Fort Legionów near the old town.
2. The 'dominant spatio-material experience' is by no means the only experience of the district. Midtown, with its glass towers, also has the remains of many 18th and 19th-century buildings, such as the one where I left the pieces.
3. The division of districts, in some places, is arbitrary. Some districts had clear boundaries according to infrastructure, but where there were multiple major roads or railways close together, I had to pick one, in order to limit the number of pieces. Also, in many cases, development happens on either side of a major piece of infrastructure, in which case it does not serve as a division, but as a link. The extent of the map was also partly based on how far I could reasonably travel by bike.
1. Trying to calculate how many times a certain district has been built and rebuilt is a tricky process. Do I count from the first recorded settlement? The first permanent settlement? The first recorded brick buildings? As well, reconstruction, especially of brick, is an ongoing event- it could also be called maintenance. Below is a picture of maintenance work at Fort Legionów near the old town.
3. The division of districts, in some places, is arbitrary. Some districts had clear boundaries according to infrastructure, but where there were multiple major roads or railways close together, I had to pick one, in order to limit the number of pieces. Also, in many cases, development happens on either side of a major piece of infrastructure, in which case it does not serve as a division, but as a link. The extent of the map was also partly based on how far I could reasonably travel by bike.
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