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Ocena potencjału kulturalnego największych miast Polski
Evaluation of the cultural potential of biggest Polish cities

Author(s): Beata Namyślak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Regional Geography, Sociology, Social development, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Economic development, Politics and Identity
Published by: Główny Urząd Statystyczny
Keywords: culture; cultural policy; regions competitiveness; taxonomic analysis

Summary/Abstract: The article includes an attempt to analyze the cultural potential of Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, Wroclaw and Poznan. Selected characteristics for the analyze were grouped by categories: cultural resources, activities associated with the cultural sector and effects of development. The study used three different methods in the field of numerical taxonomy: Perkal’s natural Index Method natural, Hellwig’s pattern development method and agglomeration methods. This article aims to examine whether the results are consistent with each other, and if they are, to what extent?

  • Issue Year: 58/2013
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 23-38
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish