Summary:

The theme undertaken in this article is the delimitation of landscape units and pre-determine of characteristics of the different landscapes on the example of the Wroclaw suburban zone. The study created three-level structure in which 4 types of landscape, 9 subtypes of landscape and 36 landscape units were distinguished. Each of the landscape unit has been characterized in terms of its specific components. The results are a contribution to the topic of landscape management and discuss the problem of application of these solutions on a local scale