SPATIAL SELF-IDENTIFICATION OF COMMUNES IN URBAN REGION AS AN IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE FOR SHAPING A METROPOLITAN AREA
SPATIAL SELF-IDENTIFICATION OF COMMUNES IN URBAN REGION AS AN IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE FOR SHAPING A METROPOLITAN AREA

Summary/Abstract: Motives: The main manifestation of suburbanisation, which is crucial process shaping settlementsystem in Poland, are suburbs, whose spatial expansion and qualitative characteristics lead to theformation of new functional and spatial structures between the central city and its surroundings.In this sense, the process of suburbanisation is closely related to metropolisation, i.e. the growingimportance in the economy of large urban regions or, more broadly, urbanised systems.Aim: The purpose of this study is to trace the spatial policy of the communes making up theBydgoszcz–Toruń Metropolitan Area (BTMA) concerning entries in their strategic and planningdocuments indicating the degree of metropolitan links.Results: It was shown that these records would determine further actions affecting the advancementof the metropolisation process in urban region of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship. Against thestrategic and planning documents background, the vision for the creation of the Bydgoszcz–ToruńMetropolitan Area, present in the narrative of the two major cities, is quite different. It seems it willcomplicate the metropolisation process in the region.

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