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Many regions of Europe are witnessing the reconstruction of regional identity, especially in places where radical social, cultural and economic changes occur. Economic restructuring is a factor of particular importance – it has always affected the stability of units such as a region, town and sometimes even a country. In Poland, this is well visible in the Silesian Voivodship, including in one of its sub-regions, the Dąbrowa Basin, presented in the paper. This young region, created as a result of 19-century pan-European industrialization, is inhabited mainly by descendants of immigrants from rural and small-town areas of Lesser Poland (Małopolska). Attempts have begun in many local groups and circles to strengthen the region’s identity – a process often accompanied by the creation of this identity and by inventing and hand-picking passages of the region’s history that serve this purpose. This poses a significant challenge for regional education where a serious dilemma appears: how to tackle invented tradition, how to evaluate it and what functions to assign to it.
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The asymmetrical balance of the forces between socio-economic develop‑ ment and the condition of the environment brings about a real ecological threat both on a local and global scale. The necessity for designing activities compatible with the concept of sustainable development constitutes a real challenge in various areas of consumption, including tourism. The article is an attempt to determine whether in post-industrial tourism, which is embedded in the space of revitalised cities, the two opposite directions are taken into account, i.e. the constantly growing consumer needs and being gradually depleted natural resources of the environment. The article was based on qualitative research conducted using standardized interviews. The re‑ spondents were people professionally linked to institutions operating in the objects constituting the Industrial Monuments Route.
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Artykuł zawiera analizę procesów metropolitalnych w aspekcie funkcjonalnym w jednym z najbardziej zaludnionych obszarów w Polsce. Jego celem jest zbadanie funkcji metropolitalnych oraz struktury wewnętrznej Górnośląskiego Obszaru Metropolitalnego. Badany obszar to policentryczny układ osadniczy o genezie konurbacji przemysłowej. Analiza bazuje na wybranych cechach jakościowych o randze międzynarodowej i krajowej, wykorzystuje wskaźnik bonitacji punktowej. Wydzielony funkcjonalny obszar metropolitalny tworzy 15 gmin, w tym 13 miast na prawach powiatu, a zamieszkuje 1,9 mln osób. Funkcje są rozproszone w różnych miastach i wykazują cechy polaryzacji. Najważniejszym ośrodkiem metropolitalnym są Katowice, które mają dobrze wykształcone funkcje metropolitalne. Pomocniczymi ośrodkami pierwszego rzędu są Gliwice i Chorzów. Pozostałe miasta to ośrodki o kształtujących się funkcjach metropolitalnych.
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The paper analyzes the functional aspect of metropolitan processes in one of the most densely populated areas in Poland. The purpose of the article is to study metropolitan functions, as well as to analyze the intrinsic structure of the Upper-Silesian Metropolitan Area, which used to be an industrial conurbation that evolved into a polycentric settlement arrangement. The analysis is based on selected qualitative features of international and domestic standings, and uses the centrality indicator. The selected functional metropolitan area is formed by 15 municipalities, including 13 towns with county rights, and is inhabited by 1.9 million people. The functions are dispersed in different towns and seem polarized. The metropolitan centre of utmost importance and holding well-developed metropolitan functions is the city of Katowice, whereas Gliwice and Chorzow are first-class auxiliary centres. The remaining towns are centres of developing metropolitan functions.
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