Dominik Sikorski
Articles
Economic suburbanisation in the Wrocław agglomeration
Geographia Polonica (2026) vol. 99, iss. 1, pp. 35-54 | 
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doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0316
Abstract
The aim of this article is to empirically identify and measure economic suburbanisation in the Wrocław agglomerationarea between 2008 and 2024. The analysis, based on REGON data, captured the physical relocation of business headquarters from the city of Wrocław to the suburban zone and examined the scale and structure of this migration. During the study period, 24.1% of the increase in the number of firms in the suburban zone resulted from migration from the city, with a total of 4096 such cases identified (11.4% of allentities in the zone). The process primarily involved micro-enterprises (94.9%) owned by private individuals,with a predominance of the service sector (90.0%), particularly professional, scientific and technical activities, trade, and construction. The study confirms that economic suburbanisation constitutes a significant component of the contemporary spatial and economic transformation of Central and Eastern European metropolitan areas, exemplified by Wrocław and its suburban zone.
Keywords: economic suburbanization, business relocation, Wrocław agglomeration area, REGON data, descriptive statistics, Poland
[dominik.sikorski@uwr.edu.pl], Institute of Geography and Regional Development University of Wrocław Pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław: Poland
[dariusz.ilnicki@uwr.edu.pl], Institute of Geography and Regional Development University of Wrocław Pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław: Poland
Reviving villages – a proposal for a concept and identification. A methodological approach
Geographia Polonica (2021) vol. 94, iss. 1, pp. 5-27 | Full text
doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0191
Abstract
The methodological paper proposes a new concept of a reviving village and research methods to identify it. “Reviving” entails various symptoms of increasing intensity in socio-economic processes in areas which have long been in decline, and have been classified as problem regions with signs of marginality and peripherality. To identify the reviving villages we used a combination of diverse datasets and sources of information (i.e. statistical databases, cartographic materials, field research). We critically assessed the available data pointing out to its limitations. The new methodology was tested in the borderland of the Kłodzko region in the Sudetes Mountains (Poland). Proposed research procedure can be applied to any other marginal, depopulating rural areas to identify their potential current transformations.
Keywords: depopulation, marginal/problem areas, rural revival, reviving village, methodology for rural studies, Sudetes Mountains
[agnieszka.latocha@uwr.edu.pl], Institute of Geography and Regional Development University of Wrocław Pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław: Poland
[robert.szmytkie@uwr.edu.pl], Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Instytut Geografii i Rozwoju Regionalnego
[dominik.sikorski@uwr.edu.pl], Institute of Geography and Regional Development University of Wrocław Pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław: Poland
[przemyslaw.tomczak@uwr.edu.pl], Institute of Geography and Regional Development University of Wrocław Pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław: Poland
, Institute of Sociology University of Wrocław Koszarowa 3, 51-149 Wrocław: Poland
, Institute of Geography and Regional Development University of Wrocław Pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław: Poland