Przemiany rozmieszczenia terenów przemysłowych w Krakowie jako następstwo realizacji zasad gospodarki rynkowej
Changes in the Distribution of Industrial Areas in Kraków as a Result of the Implementation of Market Economy Principles

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to assess changes in the distribution of industrial areas and their role in the spatial structure of Kraków in the market economy conditions. Kraków has been chosen as an example: a city in which industry constituted a key economic function in the period of the centrally controlled socialist economy, which was reflected in the developed local master spatial development plans. This sector of economy has now lost its importance in favour of the functions that have been setting the directions of the city’s socio-economic and spatial development for a long time, sometimes since the Middle Ages, i.e.: culture, science and tourism. The research has shown a decline in the importance and the size of industrial areas in central parts of Kraków, but development in the peripheral districts, while the leading position of the ArcelorMittal steelworks (formerly the Lenin steelworks) was maintained. More detailed research was carried out on the basis of geodetic data, compiled according to four land registry units (former administrative districts of the city, functioning in the years: 1973-1991: Krowodrza, Nowa Huta, Podgórze and Śródmieście). This makes it possible to conduct a comparative analysis for the period of more than forty years.

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