Powstawanie obszaru metropolitalnego. Przykład Bydgoszczy i Torunia
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Social and economic phenomena in the spatial environment reflect the changes
occurring in close and distant surroundings in which the globalization, metropolization
and glocalization are observed. The knowledge-based economy brings the adaptation to
new conditions and also ability of avoiding threats and taking opportunities. This is the
reason why two, not far distant but competing towns have been encouraged to cooperate.
In the paper the process of the metropolization is presented on the example of central
towns of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship. The selected aspects of this process have
been taken into account, i.e. external determinants, formal reasons for integration and its
signs presented in development strategies in comparison with social and economic
potentials, and also institutions allowing the access to knowledge and innovation transfer
among towns. The short description of these aspects has shown that slow changes with
regard to the process of metropolization are observed.
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