What is it about?
The article presents the population problem of urban functional area around selected medium-sized cities in Poland and the Czech Republic. Core cities with suburban areas co-create the functional urban areas with varied demographic structure and development dynamics. The population in suburban areas of the examined Polish and Czech cities is relatively younger than in the core cities. Functional approach for development of urban areas founding depart from perception of demographic problem and challenges only by prism of administrative borders becomes more important.
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Why is it important?
Actual developmental problems of medium-sized cities in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Perspectives
The demographic potential of cities and its structure changes have a significant impact on the course of socio-economic processes. They e.g. stimulate the extent of the needs in terms of social infrastructure, the level of occupational activity, as well as co-decide about the dynamics of a particular city future development.
Marek Obrębalski
Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wroclawiu
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This page is a summary of: Demographic potential in functional areas of the selected medium-sized cities in Poland and the Czech Republic, GeoScape, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/geosc-2017-0002.
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