| dc.description.abstract | In many developed countries, social analysts claim the big cities fall, decline or crisis.
The paper presents only a fragment of that issue, on a background of big industrial cities
in the North and Midwest of the United States and through the prism of the contemporary
urbanization processes that deals with the restructurization of the mode of production. Big
industrial cities, in particular their inner cities, are beyond the main stream of these processes.
The symptoms of theirs ‘declined’ physical structure and evidence of social disorganization
are particularly visible due to the economic disparities.
The viewpoint of urban decline in the paper is the sequence of changes fostered by the
urbanization and its current developments, viz. the suburbanization, the cities sprawl, and the
social effects as urban inequalities, racial differentiation and poverty zones. The advance of
urbanization processes in the postindu striai societies is to regard as lesson. In conclusion, the
paper suggests that bearing in mind phenomenons ongoing in the high developed country,
one can foresee (although moderately) the future of the Polish cities too, where the processes
of restructuring the production have been already started, so the restructuring the space would
follow the widespread patterns. | pl_PL |
