“…Today, suburbanisation is defined in Poland as the uncontrolled urbanisation of rural settlements located within convenient commuting reach. As these changes are chaotic in nature, they lead to the degradation of the value of the rural landscape (cultural heritage), the loss of cultural identity, and the loss of social bonds [14]. Processes related to suburbanisation and their adverse consequences have been noted to increase in eight metropolitan areas in Poland: Warsaw [58,[60][61][62], Katowice Conurbation (also known as the Silesian and D ąbrowa Basin Metropolitan Area) [63,64], Gda ńsk Conurbation [65,66], Pozna ń [33,[67][68][69], Kraków [50,[70][71][72], Wrocław [67,[73][74][75][76], Łódź [77,78], and Szczecin [15].…”