Miasta zdegradowane w województwie łódzkim w końcu I dekady XXI wieku
Degraded towns in the Łódzkie Voivodeship in the end of the first decade of XXI century

Summary/Abstract: Former cities are an important component of the rural settlement network. The purpose of the study is to characterize the villages located within the current borders of the Łódź Voivodeship, which have lost their city status, as well as the answer to the question whether there are villages in this area with real chances of obtaining this status in the near future. The set of villages discussed in the article includes all former cities that were degraded before 2010. Research has shown that there are relatively many (73) such villages in the Łódź Voivodeship, which is a consequence of the tsarist decree depriving many cities of their rights within the Russian partition in the second half of the 19th century.

• Details
• Contents