FUNCTIONAL-SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF TOWNS IN A TRADITIONAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC REGION – KATOWICE AS AN EXAMPLE Cover Image

PRZEOBRAŻENIA FUNKCJONALNO-PRZESTRZENNE MIAST TRADYCYJNEGO REGIONU SPOŁECZNO- -EKONOMICZNEGO – PRZYKŁAD KATOWIC
FUNCTIONAL-SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF TOWNS IN A TRADITIONAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC REGION – KATOWICE AS AN EXAMPLE

Author(s): Anna Runge
Subject(s): Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: revitalization; housing; functional-spatial structure; Silesian Voivodeship; Katowice

Summary/Abstract: Traditional socio-economic regions established in the so-called second Kondratiev cycle (N.D. Kondratiev (1925) reflect a stage of dominance of mining and metallurgical industry in economy. The Katowice conurbation is an example of such a region in Central Europe. The goal of the article is to identify the most important functional-spatial transformations, especially the ones that took place after the political and economic transformation. Attention was focused mainly on the problems of revitalization of post-industrial areas, development of housing within industrial centres and suburbanization tendencies.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 35-46
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English, Polish