Praca poswięca się przedstawieniu architektury w powojennym Wrocławiu oraz jej roli w przyswojeniu "obcego miasta" po 1945 roku (Gregor Thum, 2003). Praca obejmuje analizę różnorodnych mediów przekazu, koncentrując się na przewodnikach wydawanych na przełomie ostatnich 60 lat. Porównanie cyfrowej formy przekazu przestrzeni kulturowej z przekształceniami przewodników analogowych, pozwala na wyciągnięcie wniosków co do przyszłości medium przewodnika w 21 wieku.

The study analyses the media of architecture and their employment in the appropriation of the city of Wroclaw after 1945, more exactly: a “mental appropriation” of an as yet unexplored and “foreign space” (Gregor Thum). The analysis investigates city guides of Wroclaw – themselves a representative medium of the city – which have ever since 1946 been communicating a specific urban environment through a reconstruction of its “memory-specific topography” (Maurice Halbwachs/Jan Assmann), thus instructing and to a degree “conditioning their readers” (Hans Magnus Enzensberger). The diachronic analysis of the print-medial type of city guides as well as its juxtaposition with internet-based examples yields a picture of the media development as well as an idea of the memory-specific topography of the city. The comparison of print-based and thus analog city guides with three notable (and digital) internet portals ultimately focuses on the differences, possibilities and potentials, continuities and problems of representing and communicating urban space. Taking its cue from these results, the study concludes with a prospective overview of media-based modes of communicating urban space on the threshold of the digital age, and develops concrete scenarios for a future city guiding through Wroclaw.