The aim of this article is to identify a public governance. This is a key term in describing all actions, which are taken by the government (politicians, public administration) to influence the process of ...

The term Łódź region connected to the regional organization of the country appears in 1999 according to the organization of the EU countries. It refers to the Łódź voivodeship which has functioned, within ...

After years of treating the territory as a main and active factor of the economic growth, a large city is once again regarded as a basic centre of this type of development. Intensification of the globalisation ...

In the context of territorial governance, a metropolis is not a single city within its administrative boundaries but a wider functional area comprising several municipal units. All attempts to create formalized ...

Besides social and economic coherences, territorial dimension became one of the pillars in the coherence policy of the European Union for the years subsequent to 2007. This comes in consequence of the ...

This article is an attempt of identification methods to increase local administration potential exemplified in Poland’s and German’s district city. The article aims to present differences in these transformations ...

Changes taking place in modern societies and in their economic activity are becoming more and more dynamic in their character. These changes have a territorial dimension that has been undervalued so far; ...

Social and economic phenomena in the spatial environment reflect the changes occurring in close and distant surroundings in which the globalization, metropolization and glocalization are observed. The ...

Art and culture belong to those fields which are most important for functioning of each metropolis. The location of a given city on the cultural map of Europe depends on its music traditions, prestige of its artistic ...

The article concerns the transformation of natural environment caused by human activities. Especially strong changes occur as a result of urban development. The metropolitan areas have the ...