The processes of urbanization and metropolies’ development in Poland Cover Image

Procesy metropolizacji i rozwoju metropolii w Polsce
The processes of urbanization and metropolies’ development in Poland

Author(s): Waldemar W. Budner
Subject(s): Human Geography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: urbanization;metropolis;metropolisation;metropolitan functions;city network;

Summary/Abstract: Urbanization is a complex process undergoing in towns and also involving their surrounding areas. It concerns various aspects of economic and social life as well as town planning issues. Modern conversions of urban space have changed the relations between cities and their immediate surroundings. Economic development and globalization process made large cities enter a new phase of urbanization i.e. the metropolisation phase. In Poland, only several years later it has joined the world economy circulation, the processes of metropolisation and the increase of metropolitan functions can also be perceived. Apart from Warsaw only 3-5 Polish cities have the chances of different degree for faster metropolitan development.

  • Issue Year: 7/2008
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 5-16
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish