Summary:

The quest for the multifunctionality of rural areas and the search for new places for the implementation of the housing investment is the reason that village today is treated not only as a place of agricultural production. Economic balance decides of the use of the factors of production- and, after all, one of them is earth - in a market economy. As a result the decline in profitability of agricultural pro-duction leads to the limitations of agricultural activity and the destination of the earth for other purposes.
Transformations in the rural area entail broad changes in the local com-munity. The share of people without farm and completely unconnected with the agriculture increases in it. Traditionally understood urbanization processes envis-aged movement of the rural population to the city. Meanwhile, increasingly, there is an opposite tendency. Due to the small size of the rural communities an important issue are contacts on the line native inhabitants of the village and the newcomers. The difficulties in assimilation of newcomers, the breakdown of the communities in two, representing different values and interests of the group may be the start of the creation of the specific internal barriers of local development.
The effect of the neighbourhood of villages and the big cities can be due, inter alia, on the example of the region of Lower Silesia. Wrocław, being the largest city in the region somewhat consumes an adjacent rural space - according to the GUS (main office of statistics) data in Wrocław's sub-region, in the year 1995 utilised agricultural area was 13.068 ha, and in 2005 there were only 9.684 ha left.
It is difficult to expect the absence of the human impact on the existing spatial planning. How to make use of space and also perceptions of the most desired functions which can be pursue in a given space are simply changing. Rural areas neighbouring with the large city are victims of the phenomenon of so-called spill-over town. This creates not only easily visible in the space, but much harder iden-tified changes in the local community.