ABSTRACT
The chapter aims to bring a deeper understanding of the role of public transport infrastructures in the functioning of the socialist and post-socialist city, and to enrich the thinking about post-socialist transition through the study of specific infrastructure. Public transportation is conceptualized here as a spatio-temporal structure, which reflects urban dynamism as well as stability stemming from interplay among numerous types of urban cycles and rhythms. The tools of rhythm analysis are employed in order to grasp not only the daily urban rhythms but also the rhythms of longue durée associated with infrastructural materiality, economic cycles and planning schemes.
