During last few years depopulation became a phenomenon more visible in Polish cities. The motivation of people to leave a family town is to improve living and working conditions. Cities can respond to demographic processes ...

Depopulation has various causes which affect the importance of this phenomenon for cities. The basic ones are: migrations, negative birth rate, wars and natural disasters. While the last two reasons may have a definitive ...

The article discusses new forms of housing for seniors (ie intergenerational housing, assisted living, housing with age restriction, senioral cohousing, continuing care retirement communities) and their availability in Poland.

Political transformations of Poland since 1990 resulted in the economic crisis of the Walbrzych agglomeration, which previous economic profile, was based on black coal mining – and the considerable loss of population number. ...

The article analyses changes in total population and population in working age, as opposed to changes in the number of the employed and the scale of unemployment in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. Changes in demographic ...

The main object of this paper was the analysis of population changes which took place in the years 1995–2014 in the Jelenia Góra and Wałbrzych agglomerations. Current poor demographic situation of Jelenia Góra and Wałbrzych ...

The author presented factors, directions and scale of the colonization and urbanization of the Kolobrzeg Seaside Functional Area (SFA) including the building of flats, houses, apartments, hotels and the expansion of the ...

The paper discusses the ongoing process of early-stage gentrification in Praga-Północ, that leads to the hyper-diversity of this area. Our study shows that diversity can play as well as a positive and negative role in ...