Walka z hałasem ulicznym w międzywojennej Warszawie. Moda czy konieczność?
Combatting Street Noise in Interwar Warsaw. Trend or Necessity?

Summary/Abstract: In the interwar period, the fight against noise pollution was as present in Polish society as it was in developed Western countries. Anti-noise committees and leagues emerged, weeks of silence were organised and levels of noise were measured in the streets. Łotysz uses reports from these measurements as well as other textual sources from the epoch to show that the noise in Polish cities was not a measure of progress, but on the contrary– of backwardness. The main cause of noise pollution was not an excess of cars, as in the Western cities that served as a benchmark, but the disastrous condition of the streets and tracks, outdated means of transport and archaic road traffic regulations.

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