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2015 | 2(60) | 32-52

Article title

The impact of the economic crisis on the metropolisation process in the capital cities of the CEE countries

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PL
Wpływ kryzysu gospodarczego na proces metropolizacji w miastach stołecznych krajów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej

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Abstracts

EN
The aim of this paper is to discuss the situation of the EU-10 CEE capital cities during the years since the 2008 financial crisis. The paper concentrates on metropolisation processes that became particularly pronounced at the end of the first stage of the transformation, long before the accession of these countries to the European Union. The main hypothesis is that these processes also continued in the conditions of the economic crisis. As a result, the capital cities in most CEE countries should have done relatively well coming out of the crisis, mainly due to the nature of their diversified economies and the significant share of advanced business services in their structure. As a result, the crisis provided an opportunity to ‘verify’ the viability of the current economic model in the short term, in the specific conditions of transformation economies.
PL
Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie sytuacji 10 miast stołecznych krajów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w okresie następującym po kryzysie finansowym z 2008 r. Artykuł koncentruje się na procesach metropolizacji, które stały się szczególnie widoczne w pierwszej fazie transformacji, na długo przed przystąpieniem tych krajów do Unii Europejskiej. Przyjęta hipoteza zakłada, że te procesy postępują również w warunkach kryzysu gospodarczego. W rezultacie należy oczekiwać, że sytuacja miast stołecznych krajów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej powinna być dobra z uwagi na zdywersyfiowaną strukturę gospodarczą i duży udział zaawansowanych usług dla przedsiębiorstw. W efekcie kryzys stworzył możliwość weryfikacji odporności aktualnego modelu rozwoju gospodarczego w krótkim okresie w specyficznych warunkach transformujących się gospodarek.

Contributors

  • University of Warsaw, Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG)

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