Demographic changes in Polish cities in the years 1950-2016

Szymańska, Daniela; Wylon, Mirosław

doi:10.2478/bog-2019-0019

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“…The population decline resulted from both the natural decrease (-8.7‰) and the negative migration balance. Population losses indicate that Bytom is the leader of depopulation not also in the region and the GZM, but also in the entire country (Szymańska & Wylon, 2019). Another pressing issue accelerating the demodystopian image is intensive demographic ageing.…”

Section: Depopulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Post-Dystopian Future Possible: Alternative Policies for Bytom

Mihaylov,

Zuzańska-Żyśko

2023

BGSS

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This article follows the argument that urban dystopia is reserved not only for the sphere of the fictional but also as a state of reality that academic methods can capture and describe. Taking the example of the city of Bytom, a traditional centre of coal mining in Southern Poland, the article discusses four spheres where the dystopian present is clearly visible – namely, the four elements that led Bytom to a socio-economic and spatial collapse: depopulation, social polarisation and ghettoisation, degradation of the urban fabric and mining damage. Apart from showing empirical evidence, the article critically considers the possibilities of a post-dystopian urban future for the city. A discussion of possible policy answers to these dystopian trends is based on two possible visions of how the urban future could look. First, the semi-dystopian vision assumes that the expected direction and the results of current policies will lead to some improvement in the quality of the urban environment and the residents’ quality of life. Second, the post-dystopian future is based on an optimistic vision, which assumes that a post-dystopian future is possible. However, the desired salvation from the dystopian present will not come about through the search for new utopian visions. It will rely instead on the improvement and mitigation of some of the substantial social, economic and environmental problems that exist and continue to present an unbreakable social image.

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Section: Depopulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Post-Dystopian Future Possible: Alternative Policies for Bytom

Mihaylov,

Zuzańska-Żyśko

2023

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“…The two decades of the twenty-first century in Poland's big cities have therefore been characterised, firstly, by the development of large, commercial investments in the construction of housing and services (shopping and office centres); secondly, by the outflow of a section of residents to the suburbs; 39 and thirdly, by a shaky balance in the system of the city and its suburbs, given the lack of mechanisms simultaneously adapting the social and transport infrastructure to these changes.…”

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Playing Locally but Commuting to a Better School: Urban Planning and Education Policies in Parental Involvement Practices and Local Community Formation

Smagacz‐Poziemska

Bierwiaczonek

2021

East European Politics and Societies

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In this article, we analyse the formation of local communities from the perspective of the practices of parental involvement. Adopting a practice-based approach to empirical research on six estates in three Polish cities, we reconstruct the connections between the spatial logics of the housing areas, national education, and housing polices, and their impact on the everyday life practices inside and outside the estate. Using the category of practice of parental involvement, we show the complex, long-term impact of state and local education policies on everyday life and, as a result, on the processes of structuring or fragmentation of territorial communities. The results of our qualitative studies not only develop knowledge about the connections between national polices and everyday life practices but also, we hope, could help to design effective public policies.

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“…Sociodemographic suburbanisation is one of the phases of the city's development cycle, characterised by a population decline in central parts of the town/city and intensive demographic development of the suburban zone (Van den Berg et al 1982). Suburbanisation triggers a number of factors, including: increase in the residents' wealth, higher rent of land, development of transport and motorisation, better availability of credit, but also an increase in environmental awareness (Kurek 2008(Kurek , 2014Szymańska and Wylon 2019). The effects of suburbanisation are as complex and multi-faceted as the process itself.…”

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Demographic Changes and Their Impact on Urban Economic Base the Case of Towns From the Łódź Voivodeship

Guz¹

2020

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Structural transformations that have been taking place in Poland since the 1990s triggered important changes in demographic and economic urban structures. Poland’s opening to global processes brought Polish society to the stage of modern demographic development which has produced changes in, among others, vital statistics and spatial mobility of the country’s residents. Systemic and structural transformation of the country at the early stages has significantly undermined its economy, in particular, in urban centres. Very much needed restructuring of urban economies resulted in the closure or bankruptcy of many enterprises. The economic function of towns and cities and their demographic structure have changedprofoundly, exerting a mutual impact on each other. The paper is based on the assumption that there is a relationship between demographic changes in towns and cities and the urban economic base. Its goal is to identify the impact exerted by demographic changes on the economy of investigated towns. The problem is illustrated with cases of towns and cities in Łódź Voivodeship (territorial units with the city status as on 1 January 2018). The research time frame spanned 1995 and 2017.

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Demographic changes in Polish cities in the years 1950-2016

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Making Post-Dystopian Future Possible: Alternative Policies for Bytom

Making Post-Dystopian Future Possible: Alternative Policies for Bytom

Playing Locally but Commuting to a Better School: Urban Planning and Education Policies in Parental Involvement Practices and Local Community Formation

Demographic Changes and Their Impact on Urban Economic Base the Case of Towns From the Łódź Voivodeship

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