Abstract:Many towns and cities in the world experience the process of urban shrinkage. This may be observed in localities of different types and of all sizes, including a large group of post-industrial towns and cities of Central and Eastern Europe. One of the districts affected by the urban shrinkage process is the Katowice conurbation in Poland, which may serve as a good example to consider the potential for introducing the idea of sustainable development. In this perspective, sustainability is considered as a specif… Show more
“…It is also indicated by the number of creative industry entities per 1000 people in the conurbation core. It varies from 4.0 entities in Zabrze to 15.6 in Katowice [66].…”
Section: Specific Features Of the Katowice Conurbation's Economic Tramentioning
The socio-economic transformation of (post)mining towns takes different forms and follows varied pathways. This obvious fact acquires a different significance in a region that is a polycentric urban conurbation whose growth was based on coal mining and industry. Particularly as concerns small towns, which are a minority in it in terms of numbers. This paper attempts to present the issue based on the cases of two small towns, Lędziny and Radzionków, located in the Katowice conurbation in southern Poland. While having similar mining origins, the towns currently represent two radically different paths of economic development. Both mentioned towns are developing relatively well. However, certain threats to their growth are also revealed: social functional, environmental and even political. A closer inspection of both is important in that the two small towns are examples of two extremities in the region, between which other types of towns undergoing socio-economic transformation are situated. The selected examples also indicate that a small (post)mining town does not necessarily have to be ‘the place that don’t matter’. Additionally, an important conclusion is that despite many objective barriers, a small town in a mining region can follow a line of development based on the industry 4.0 concept.
“…It is also indicated by the number of creative industry entities per 1000 people in the conurbation core. It varies from 4.0 entities in Zabrze to 15.6 in Katowice [66].…”
Section: Specific Features Of the Katowice Conurbation's Economic Tramentioning
The socio-economic transformation of (post)mining towns takes different forms and follows varied pathways. This obvious fact acquires a different significance in a region that is a polycentric urban conurbation whose growth was based on coal mining and industry. Particularly as concerns small towns, which are a minority in it in terms of numbers. This paper attempts to present the issue based on the cases of two small towns, Lędziny and Radzionków, located in the Katowice conurbation in southern Poland. While having similar mining origins, the towns currently represent two radically different paths of economic development. Both mentioned towns are developing relatively well. However, certain threats to their growth are also revealed: social functional, environmental and even political. A closer inspection of both is important in that the two small towns are examples of two extremities in the region, between which other types of towns undergoing socio-economic transformation are situated. The selected examples also indicate that a small (post)mining town does not necessarily have to be ‘the place that don’t matter’. Additionally, an important conclusion is that despite many objective barriers, a small town in a mining region can follow a line of development based on the industry 4.0 concept.
“…Postępujący spadek zaludnienia miast konurbacji katowickiej wskazuje na potrzebę dopasowania zagospodarowania infrastrukturalnego, zasobów mieszkaniowych, struktury przestrzennej miast i całego zespołu osadniczego konurbacji katowickiej do zmniejszającej się liczby ludności oraz zmieniającej się struktury mieszkańców (m.in. starzenie) oraz ich potrzeb Runge et al 2018;Krzysztofik (red. ) 2018).…”
Section: Struktura Funkcjonalna I Jej Wyzwaniaunclassified
ABSTRAKT: Tradycyjne regiony społeczno-ekonomiczne powstałe w tzw. drugim cyklu N.D. Kondratiewa (1925) odzwierciedlają etap dominacji górnictwa i hutnictwa w gospodarce. Przykład takiego regionu w Europie Środkowej to konurbacja katowicka. Celem artykułu jest próba usystematyzowania najważniejszych współczesnych przeobrażeń funkcjonalno-przestrzennych, zwłaszcza tych, które nastąpiły po transformacji ustrojowo-gospodarczej. Uwagę skupiono przede wszystkim na: problemach rewitalizacji terenów poprzemysłowych, kształtowaniu się mieszkalnictwa w obrębie ośrodków przemysłowych oraz na tendencjach suburbanizacji. SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: rewitalizacja, mieszkalnictwo, struktura funkcjonalno-przestrzenna, województwo śląskie, Katowice ABSTRACT: Traditional socioeconomic 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.
“…Rich empirical evidence suggests that there are cases in social reality where the urban shrinkage process shows both positive and negative effects [13]. Finding adequate local policy responses is, however, still rather rare [14,15], although the shrinkage presents many specific challenges for sustainability [16][17][18].…”
Urban shrinkage has become a common pathway (not only) in post-socialist cities, which represents new challenges for traditionally growth-oriented spatial planning. Though in the post-socialist area, the situation is even worse due to prevailing weak planning culture and resulting uncoordinated development. The case of the city of Ostrava illustrates how the problem of (in)efficient infrastructure operation, and maintenance, in already fragmented urban structure is exacerbated by the growing size of urban area (through low-intensity land-use) in combination with declining size of population (due to high rate of outmigration). Shrinkage, however, is, on the intra-urban level, spatially differentiated. Population, paradoxically, most intensively declines in the least financially demanding land-uses and grows in the most expensive land-uses for public administration. As population and urban structure development prove to have strong inertia, this land-use development constitutes a great challenge for a city’s future sustainability. The main objective of the paper is to explore the nexus between change in population density patterns in relation to urban shrinkage, and sustainability of public finance.
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