@article{2-s2.0-85181948017,

title = {Changes in regional settlement systems in Poland},

author = { A. Runge},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85181948017&doi=10.2478%2fenviron-2023-0019&partnerID=40&md5=01970e7c6e2e01080effb62442c82221},

doi = {10.2478/environ-2023-0019},

issn = {23540079},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Environmental and Socio-Economic Studies},

volume = {11},

number = {4},

pages = {1-11},

publisher = {Sciendo},

abstract = {This article is an attempt to identify regularities in changes in regional settlement systems in Poland with an indication of the elements that showed the highest population dynamics (growth or decline) in particular periods, thus contributing to changes in the structure of these systems. In order to show similarities and differences in the course of the analyzed changes, univariate statistical measures (median; quartiles) were used. This allowed for presenting a dynamic typology of these changes in order to show their cyclical nature and spatial diversity. The results show that these processes do not occur in a similar direction in all regions. The model of consistent changes in the size structure of cities concerns the settlement core of the country (Mazowieckie; Wielkopolskie; Małopolskie), while the resequential changes generally took place in the agricultural peripheries of the country (Podlaskie; Warmińsko-mazurskie), which were drained from the demographic potential by the migration outflow of the population the earliest, as well as in industrial regions (Śląskie; Łódzkie), where the political and economic transformation significantly affected population processes. © 2023 De Gruyter Open Ltd. All rights reserved.},

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@article{2-s2.0-85102115180,

title = {Transformation directions of brownfields: The case of the górnośląsko-zagłȩbiowska metropolis},

author = { S. Pytel and S. Sitek and M. Chmielewska and E. Zuzańska-Żyśko and A. Runge and J. Markiewicz-Patkowska},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85102115180&doi=10.3390%2fsu13042075&partnerID=40&md5=ab75a63863ff14dd07d47eb4fbe318eb},

doi = {10.3390/su13042075},

issn = {20711050},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Sustainability (Switzerland)},

volume = {13},

number = {4},

pages = {1-24},

publisher = {MDPI AG},

abstract = {Brownfields are remnants of the functional and spatial transformations of urban areas in Poland. They are particularly abundant in old industrial districts, based on coal mining and metallurgy. The aim of this study is to identify the transformation directions and functional changes of brownfields in the former Upper Silesian Industrial Region in southern Poland, which has evolved into the Górnoslasko-Zagłebiowska Metropolis (GZM) through the process of socio-economic transformation. The study makes use of the test of independence and Cramer’s V as a post-test, and the method of in-depth interviews. The results indicate that the most popular new functions of post-industrial sites are production and services. When we consider large brownfields such as, in particular, disused mine dumps, dumping sites, settling ponds and workings, the most popular new form of land use is green spaces. Moreover, the study shows that the size of brownfields impacts their new forms of land use. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.},

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@article{2-s2.0-85097021634,

title = {Does urban shrinkage require urban policy? The case of a post-industrial region in Poland},

author = { A. Runge and J. Runge and I. Kantor-Pietraga and R. Krzysztofik},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097021634&doi=10.1080%2f21681376.2020.1831947&partnerID=40&md5=b89161fc1025e3545f157cbbde61e632},

doi = {10.1080/21681376.2020.1831947},

issn = {21681376},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Regional Studies, Regional Science},

volume = {7},

number = {1},

pages = {476-494},

publisher = {Routledge},

abstract = {The problem of depopulation in towns is present in most European countries. In Central and Eastern Europe it emerged primarily after the political transformation at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Despite the often-significant demographic decline, the problem did not immediately become part of agenda-setting in towns’ local strategies. This paper discusses the above topics, focusing on the principal reasons for trivialization of depopulation in local policies of towns in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. In the discussion an emphasis is placed on the fact that in this region the issue of depopulation and urban shrinkage ‘vied’ with another consequence of transformation: unemployment. Because the Silesian Voivodeship is one of the largest regional labour markets in Europe, the confrontation of the two phenomena in local and regional policy took an original course characterized by phenomena such as policy taboo, trivialization, informal agenda-setting and mismatch strategies. The paper shows that while all the mentioned attributes of urban policy with respect to depopulation may be regarded as negative, considering the gigantic scale of the unemployment and depopulation phenomena and lack of experience in urban governance, they were a ‘natural’ reaction of the local authorities to the accumulated problems. It also indicates that in the studied region issues such as strongly marked morphological polycentricity and its (post)mining and (post)industrial nature were also not without significance. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.},

note = {5},

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@article{2-s2.0-85058035931,

title = {Can depopulation create urban sustainability in postindustrial regions? A case from Poland},

author = { A. Runge and I. Kantor-Pietraga and J. Runge and R. Krzysztofik and W. Dragan},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058035931&doi=10.3390%2fsu10124633&partnerID=40&md5=17b6572b41fb986c19fa7c94d5dab20d},

doi = {10.3390/su10124633},

issn = {20711050},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Sustainability (Switzerland)},

volume = {10},

number = {12},

publisher = {MDPI},

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 specific challenge within the progress of regional transformation, but also a target concept for a large urban region to be followed throughout the evolution and at particular stages of the change. In the discussed region it is all the more important because it is followed by phenomena related to post(industrialism), relatively high pollution levels compared with the European average and a polycentric system of settlement. This paper states that the current urban policy implemented in the Katowice conurbation does not seem to have any palpable effect reversing the trend of depopulation in the region, which seems to stem from the fact that numerous initiatives undertaken in the area are 'illusory' and often unnecessary and unjustified. This also applies to activities embracing and fostering the idea of sustainability. With regard to the latter issue, the main concern refers to overinvestment and wasting the measures to reduce low emissions and to make savings in the heat supply system for residential buildings. The Authors proposed a new vision for the transformation of the region. It will respond to the current and expected needs of the residents, while making allowances for multidimensional sustainable development, particularly in terms of housing policy and spatial development. This concept primarily focuses on a new balance between the areas covered by low-rise and high-rise buildings and the reorganisation of the structure of the local economy. © 2018 by the authors.},

note = {13},

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@article{2-s2.0-85022206856,

title = {Is the suburbanisation stage always important in the transformation of large urban agglomerations? The case of the Katowice conurbation},

author = { R. Krzysztofik and I. Kantor-Pietraga and A. Runge and T. Spórna},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85022206856&doi=10.7163%2fGPol.0082&partnerID=40&md5=6238e1e0df6de5c873c1b5959f6447f9},

doi = {10.7163/GPol.0082},

issn = {00167282},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Geographia Polonica},

volume = {90},

number = {2},

pages = {5-24},

publisher = {Polska Akademia Nauk},

abstract = {Suburbanisation represents one of the most important contemporary problems facing large urban agglomerations. An analysis of the development of urban agglomerations in Central-Eastern Europe, and especially Poland, leads to the observation that this problem is not particularly advanced in any of them. The aim of this article has thus been to examine how relevant it might be to consider the suburbanisation stage in large Polish agglomerations, as a permanent feature of the Klaassen/Paelinck and van den Berg models. Specifically, the article focuses on Poland’s seven largest agglomerations, though there is a particular emphasis on the Katowice conurbation. The essence of the study lay in the identification of differences in the population balance between these agglomerations, and above all, between their cores and outer zones. The study also included data on the structure characterising out-migrations. A consequence of the study was to draw attention to the apparent diversity of the Katowice conurbation, the only one in Poland to record a population decline in both the core area and the outer zone. This specificity was explained mainly by the drivers of polycentricity and post-industrialism. In other agglomerations, these elements were either absent altogether or were involved in separate shaping of urban regional space. © Robert Krzysztofik, Iwona Kantor-Pietraga, Anna Runge, Tomasz Spórna and Geographia Polonica and Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences • Warsaw • 2017.},

note = {18},

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@article{2-s2.0-84893571231,

title = {Changeability of social-economic factors in the development of population transformations of silesian towns},

author = { A. Runge},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84893571231&partnerID=40&md5=3f573f81abd71261b0b9edb35e9e0cbd},

issn = {17324254},

year  = {2006},

date = {2006-01-01},

journal = {Bulletin of Geography},

volume = {5},

number = {1},

pages = {51-64},

publisher = {Nicolaus Copernicus University},

abstract = {The paper concerns the assemblage of towns of historical Silesia studied in three patters: 1) as a set of 183 urban centres, 2) in regional system (Lower Silesia, Opole Silesia, Upper Silesia), 3) in size-class pattern (large towns: >100 thousand inhabitants, medium: 20-100 thousand, small: <20 thousand). An attempt was made to identify correlations between the population number and features, which significantly influence population changes. These factors include the assemblages of demographic, infrastructural, economic and financial features. The analysis was performed for four time cross-sections, which represent various political, economic and social situation of Poland (years: 1977, 1985, 1994, 2001). The employed method of step regression made it possible to identify three clear trends of correlations between population and the selected social-economic factors:- in the scale of the whole territory of Silesia these correlations are rather small, but increasing in time (both before and after political transformation); - in regional pattern, there is a clear increase of correlations from the west to the east;- in the pattern of size-classes of towns - the strongest correlations occur in large towns, weaker in medium towns and the weakest in small towns.},

note = {1},

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@article{2-s2.0-84893276903,

title = {Conditions and trends of social-economic changes of Katowice region},

author = { J. Runge and F. Kłosowski and A. Runge},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84893276903&partnerID=40&md5=be1f04f280927188f06284a735c6175d},

issn = {17324254},

year  = {2003},

date = {2003-01-01},

journal = {Bulletin of Geography},

volume = {2},

pages = {85-102},

abstract = {The paper concerns the evaluation of determinants and identification of trends of social-economic transformations in Katowice region. This is the most urbanised area in Poland. In the conditions of central economy based on intensive industrialisation it was created into a traditional industrial region with abundance of jobs. In terms of demographic transformations, considerable migration inflow was observed here until the 1980s, which was influenced by economic investments and resulted also from the phasic character of demographic cycle. The beginning of political-economic transformations at the beginning of the 1990s revealed weaknesses of the hitherto model of extensive development of this area, which is evidenced by such phenomena as collapse of many industrial plants, old-fashioned branch structure of industry with domination of mining and metallurgy, which requires profound restructuring. All these result in large structural unemployment, which will still increase in the feature. This, in turn, causes the increase of disproportions in the conditions and life-style of the region inhabitants. The barrier of restructuring is inefficient amount of financial measures and the territorial scale of the region, therefore the realisation of restructuring programme requires financial support from structural funds of the European Union.},

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