Warsaw Metropolitan Area and the development of Mazovia. The selected results of the research carried on project “The Development Trends of the Mazovi Cover Image

Obszar Metropolitalny Warszawy a rozwój Mazowsza. Wybrane wyniki badań prowadzonych w projekcie „Trendy Rozwojowe Mazowsza”
Warsaw Metropolitan Area and the development of Mazovia. The selected results of the research carried on project “The Development Trends of the Mazovi

Author(s): Przemysław Śleszyński
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: EUROREG - Uniwersytet Warszawski, Regional Studies Association - Sekcja Polska
Keywords: socio-economic development; suburban zone; suburbanization; Warsaw; Warsaw Metropolitan Area; Mazovia region

Summary/Abstract: The paper includes the most important results of the project of the same title, carried out as part of a larger project “The Development Trends of the Mazovia Region”, implemented for the local government of the Mazowieckie voivodship in 2010−2012. It primarily concerned demographic and settlement issues related to the evolution of functional relations and linkages, spatial availability, as well as infrastructure and land use conditions. The main objective was to formulate the conditions which would ensure development, and to identify the factors and conditions that affected easy flow of development stimuli and better efficiency of the suburban zone and spatial cohesion of the Mazovia region. The horizon time of the project concerned the period after 1990 (diagnosis and retrospective study) and 2030 (forecast). The paper has a survey character, it reports on selected topics only, and its aim is to disseminate important research results.

  • Issue Year: 16/2015
  • Issue No: 61
  • Page Range: 43-66
  • Page Count: 24
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