The article analyses and evaluates social, demographic and economic changes in the community of Michałowice. In the first part of the work, the author defines the term urban-sprawl, based on specialist literature. Next, the article fo-cuses on characteristic features of the Michałowice community, which is located in the vicinity of Krakow. That is a cause of strong social and economic links with the city. Moreover, the articles presents current local acts of spatial planning. Since, demographic situation plays an important role in the social and economic development of the area, the next part of the article sheds some light on demo-graphic dynamics, including structural changes related to the expansion of building developments. In addition, the study also included surveys among randomly selected inhabitants concerning the social and economic situation in the community. The development of the area is influenced by the rate of increase/decrease of business undertakings. That is why the last part of the article presents the current state and growth dynamics of business undertakings in Michałowice. ...
The article focuses on social changes and economic transformations that occurred in the years 2000-2010 in the community of Michałowice. The first part presents an analysis of socio-economic changes in the studied area. This includes the discussion of demographic trends in Michalowice within the studied 10 years, because this was the period of continual growth of population density in villages of the Małopolskie region. Afterwards, the article presents a dynamic analysis of economic indices related to unemployment, population growth rate, economic load, demographic ageing and the dynamics of economic units in the researched area. The first part of the article also includes data on population structure, i.e. gender and economic age groups, in Michałowice. Population growth in this area is accompanied by intensified building developments. The study of this trend was based on the analysis of the number of building permits, total community area planned for building development and the number of new residential buildings. The second part of the paper evaluates the level of technical infrastructure in Michałowice compared to other communities in the Krakow district based on a comprehensive index analysis. ...
