The article presents selected cases of spatial conflicts occurring in rural areas. We analyzed both areas in the close proximity of large urban agglomerations and municipalities within a largely agricultural. The encountered problems can be divided into those resulting from existing natural conditions and from errors or omissions in the planning of new functions. The consequence of the situations mentioned in the article are spatial conflicts occurring at the interface of lands for various purposes. These conflicts significantly hinder or prevent the comfortable use of the infrastructure, the proper functioning of farms, secure residence in the area. The result of mistakes made in the process of planning and insufficient consideration of natural conditions that existed in the area is also the destruction of property, exposure to significant costs of disaster relief and payments of compensation. ...
Shrinking cities/towns is a relatively new research problem. Depopulation refers to a growing number of cities/towns, especially in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States. The continuing outflow of population causes many economic, social, infrastructural, environmental and planning problems. Until now don't exist proven, universal methods of preventing and counteraction shrinkage of the cities/towns. The article presents the results of a survey conducted among inhabitants of Görlitz and several neighboring villages concerning ruralization of the town outskirts proposed in the article. The results of the survey and conducted analyzes confirm the need to reduce the administrative borders of the shrinking town and reinstatement a status of rural area to the outskirts of the town - in the framework of the wider application of the ruralization concept as a method of counteracting the negative effects of the town shrinkage. The study is a continuation of earlier analyzis of the impact of reduction of the state border function on the development of border towns Zgorzelec and Görlitz and analyzis of cross-border spatial planning in these towns (Ładysz, 2005, 2008). ...
Since the change of political system in 1989, economic growth and urbanization in Poland have occurred alongside increases in regional and sectoral inequalities. This dual process poses a threat to sustainable development and social cohesion.This paper analyses the relationship between economic sevelopments of the agricultural sector and the process of urbanisation through the prism of changes in the spatial structures in the Lower Silesia region of Poland. A comparative analysis of the spatial distribution in both rural and urban sectors has been carried out. Changes in both rural and urban structures in the lat fourteen years have been identified using a cyclical-complex model based on T. Zipser's theory of contacts and theory of spherical projection. The paper contains a brief discussion of results and their implications for spatial policy. ...
In this paper soil-climatical conditions in selected localities in Namysłów commune has been analyzed. The soil and climate conditions has been analyzed with regard to agricultural utilization of wastewater for energy plants irrigation. Using available literature the possibility of wastewater management coming from villages: Brzozowiec, Mikowice, Ligota Ksiażecą, Przeczów was indicated. In the paper there were presented the proposed solution benefits and attention was paid to the existing technical infrastructure and its possible expansion. ...
