Overview
- Presents a comprehensive overview of demographic changes in Poland’s Functional Urban Areas after political transformation
- Offers unique data on the directions and scale of inner migration in FUAs
- Depicts spatial disparities in numerous maps
- Includes a special chapter on the spatial typology of FUAs
- Features a new model of suburbanization and second demographic transition processes
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book explores demographic changes in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Poland since 1990. Functional Urban Areas, introduced by ESPON, refer to functional territorial units that can be defined as travel-to-work-area, representing strong integration between urban cores and their immediate hinterland. The functional urban area consists of a city plus its commuting zone. It fills a significant gap in the academic literature by providing a deep and thorough analysis of the process of population change in Polish FUAs over the past 30 years. In particular, this empirical research work addresses population growth and decline; the main components of population growth including fertility, mortality and migration; age composition; and the pace of population ageing.
The book argues that the transformations of urban structures are triggered by second demographic transition (SDT) and suburbanization processes. Based on data from the Central Statistical Office, thiscomparative study on FUAs in Poland, which employs a division into core and commuting zones, reveals essential similarities and differences in population development, making it possible to construct a demographic typology of FUAs and investigate their spatial arrangements. A unique and innovative book, it will appeal to geographers, demographers, urbanists, city planners and policymakers, as well as students, academic researchers and others involved in urban studies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Functional Urban Areas in Poland
Book Subtitle: Demographic Trends and Migration Patterns
Authors: Sławomir Kurek, Mirosław Wójtowicz, Jadwiga Gałka
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31527-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31526-9Published: 05 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31529-0Published: 06 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31527-6Published: 20 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 196
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Demography, Migration, Regional/Spatial Science, Cities, Countries, Regions