Zmiany potencjału ludnościowego wśród osób poniżej 30 roku życia w Polsce w latach 2013 i 2023 w kontekście procesu suburbanizacji
Changes in population potential among people under 30 in Poland in 2013 and 2023 in the context of the suburbanization process

Summary/Abstract: Suburbanization is a relatively well-recognized process that affects many cities around theworld and is pointed out as one of the key challenges to their development, as well as to increasinglysprawling suburban zones. The literature extensively discusses the causes and consequences of thisprocess, emphasizing, depending on the profile of the study, social, economic, environmental, spatial,communication, and many other themes. Socio-spatial changes occurring as a result of the suburban-ization process are also causing the very definition of suburbs to evolve, as they have begun to eludeprevious definitions. Such a situation is a good opportunity for critical reflection on approaches toconsidering this phenomenon, which seem to marginalize the perspective of young people. Given theabove, this article has two objectives. First, to show suburbanization in the context of young peopleusing demographic data, and second, to draw attention to young people, who have often overlookedactors in this process. Based on data obtained from the CSO’s LDB, municipalities with the largestand smallest shares of the total population in 2023 were identified. Also recognized were the munic-ipalities and, more broadly, the areas in Poland with the largest and smallest changes in this regardbetween 2013 and 2023. Particular attention was paid to provincial cities around which the processof suburbanization can be observed on the largest scale, and a number of calculations were made toverify the relationship between the size of municipalities and cities expressed in the number of theirresidents and the share of young people in the total population.

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