Polish Towns and the Changes in Their Areas and Population Densities

Szymańska Daniela, Grzelak-Kostulska Elżbieta and Hołowiecka Beata
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Hołowiecka Beata: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 2009, vol. 11, issue 11, 15-29

Abstract: This article presents the spatial and population density changes in Polish towns in the years 1960-2003. The assumed time frame allowed identifying area changes for a complete set of towns in different socio-economic conditions: the period of intense industrialisation, the economic crisis of the 1980s, the period of economic transition and finally in the years of a market economy. The investigation revealed that the trend shown by changes and the size of a town as measured by the number of its population are distinctly interrelated. It also demonstrated a much stronger dynamics of changes in the first subperiod, i.e. years 1960--1985, followed by a phase of relative stabilization (compared with the previous period) after the year 1980 (mainly of the spatial changes). Moreover, change intensity and change trends observed for the urban areas and population densities vary considerably in terms of space.

Keywords: urbanisation; town; population density; area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.2478/v10089-008-0018-2

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