Suburbanization and migration in Polish metropolitan areas during political transition

Gałka, Jadwiga; Warych-Juras, Anna

doi:10.3986/ags.2256

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“…This may be due to a relatively small influence of Polish cities on some municipalities-in particular those located further outwards in the MA periphery. In Poland suburbanisation processes started relatively late [76,77] and actual abandonment refers to land that has not been used for many years. This latter process may not have left its full mark yet, which can be confirmed by surveyed experts from municipalities located on the MA outskirts.…”

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Determinants of Farmland Abandonment in Selected Metropolitan Areas of Poland: A Spatial Analysis on the Basis of Regression Trees and Interviews with Experts

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Dynamic land use changes in metropolitan areas are global phenomena. The influence of urbanisation processes on farmland is twofold: urban encroachments predominantly take place at the expense of farmland, and also result in farmland abandonment processes, especially in Central Eastern and Southern Europe. This paper analyses determinants of farmland abandonment in 280 municipalities situated in six selected Polish metropolitan areas. The analysis, which covers secondary statistical data as well as primary data collected via a survey among experts, applies the regression tree method. Within the six selected metropolitan areas nearly 9% of the farmland is permanently excluded from agricultural production (actual abandonment), plus another 11.5% is currently not being used for production (semi-abandonment). For actual abandonment, physical and economic sizes of farms, part-time farming, and soil quality constitute the most relevant determinants. Socio-economic variables play a more important role in explaining semi-abandonment than actual abandonment. Temporary exclusion of farmland from agricultural production is connected with urbanisation processes. Higher shares of built-up and urbanised areas, higher population densities, and positive migration rates result in higher shares of semi-abandonment. Naturally, areas characterised by agrarian fragmentation, where due to low agricultural incomes farmers more often decided to abandon agricultural production, were, in particular, subject to this process.

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Determinants of Farmland Abandonment in Selected Metropolitan Areas of Poland: A Spatial Analysis on the Basis of Regression Trees and Interviews with Experts

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“…However, the intensity of the demographic processes in the suburban zones of Polish cities is much higher than in the suburban area of the Katowice conurbation (KUPISZEWSKI ET AL., 1998; KUREK ŚLESZYŃSKI, 2006;RAŹNIAK, 2007;GAŁKA & WARYCH-JURAS, 2018). The delay of the suburbanisation processes in the Katowice conurbation is connected with the economic problems of its inhabitants resulting from the restructuring of industry (the 1990s).…”

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“…Comparative analyses of population migration to suburban zones of large Polish cities clearly reveal that the suburbanisation process in the Katowice conurbation is characterized by a much lower intensity (RAŹNIAK, 2007;WINIARCZYK-RAŹNIAK & RAŹNIAK, 2012; KRZYSZTOFIK GAŁKA & WARYCH-JURAS, 2018). This is a phenomenon in terms of urban agglomerations in Poland.…”

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The suburbanisation process in a depopulation context in the Katowice conurbation, Poland

Spórna

2018

Environmental &Amp; Socio-Economic Studies

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The Katowice conurbation is an example of a typical old industrial region in Central and Eastern Europe, whose socioeconomic transformation, initiated after 1990, has led to spatial and functional changes. The aim of this article is to present the suburbanisation process in the Katowice conurbation based on demographic changes and an analysis of migration flow. This process has been taking place in the area since the 2000s and takes on the shape of a multi-centre development of newly created individual and developed housing zones (both in the core and in the suburban area of the conurbation). Since 1990, the cities of the Katowice conurbation have been undergoing a process of shrinking. This process is manifested in the decline in number of urban residents in the years 1991–2016, amounting to 366 thousand people. Moreover, the cities face numerous social, economic and spatial problems. Since 1995, simultaneous with the shrinking of the cities of the Katowice conurbation, there has been an increase in the number of inhabitants in its suburban areas (since 2004, the trend has continued to be positive). Population increases have also been recorded in some inner-city zones of the conurbation. The suburbanisation process in the outer zone of the conurbation includes, in particular, the communes located north and south of the cities constituting its core, including the communes of Ożarowice, Psary, Mierzęcice in the north and Mikołów, Orzesze, Wyry in the south-west. On the other hand, the areas of intense inner-city construction development, located in the areas of the Katowice conurbation core, which are attractive in terms of environment and transportation, are undergoing so-called, “internal suburbanisation”.

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“…Apart of these municipalities, there are also settlements which form part of metropolitan areas according to not only P. Śleszyński (2014), but also J. Gałka & A. Warych-Juras (2018). The reason why they are left in this category is that the introduction of the FFPT policy and how it is stated in the official documents and statements does not directly address issues caused by the increasing influence of the main regional centres like Warszawa, Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, Katowice and Kraków.…”

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Riding without a ticket: geography of free fare public transport policy in Poland

Štraub

2019

Urban Development Issues

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A policy instrument promoting a free fare public transport policy (FFPT) has recently been put into practice in 66 municipalities across Poland. By contributing to the academic debate on the concept of FFPT (e.g. Kębłowski 2019), the main goal of this paper is to create a typology of the schemes where FFPT is in operation in Poland based on analyses of a geographical mapping of these projects. This study analyses how different municipalities are implementing the concept in order to define a typology of FFTP projects and to understand how the development landscape of the urban transport system is changing in the light of free fare transport policies, topics which are not fully covered in the academic literature. The findings confirm that there is a new dynamic in the development of urban transport systems and permit the identification of key characteristics of this trend. Besides the typology of implementation of FFPT, the study also presents an up-to-date inventory of FFPT projects with the key characteristic features of each system. Although the study does not provide specific recommendations regarding the introduction of a FFPT policy, it represents a good starting point for future and more detailed studies. Such studies are necessary in order to understand the role of FFPT not only in the context of the development of a given transport system, its impact on modal split, and travel behaviour, but also to uncover the different politics which lie behind them.

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Suburbanization and migration in Polish metropolitan areas during political transition

Cited by 36 publications

References 15 publications

Determinants of Farmland Abandonment in Selected Metropolitan Areas of Poland: A Spatial Analysis on the Basis of Regression Trees and Interviews with Experts

Determinants of Farmland Abandonment in Selected Metropolitan Areas of Poland: A Spatial Analysis on the Basis of Regression Trees and Interviews with Experts

The suburbanisation process in a depopulation context in the Katowice conurbation, Poland

Riding without a ticket: geography of free fare public transport policy in Poland

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