http://hdl.handle.net/11716/5454 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:37:17 GMT 2026-04-09T02:37:17Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13401 Z badań nad problematyką małych miast w województwie krakowskim w okresie międzywojennym Trojański, Piotr Small towns were a common phenomenon in the interwar Poland. By fulfilling the specific role of links between the industrial city and rural countryside, they added some colour to the social interactions and stamped their influence on the economic life of the country. The area of the Cracow Voivodeship was covered with a dense network of small towns. In 1918, there were 39 towns (including 32 small towns) within the borders of the Voivodeship. Urbanization processes were unequal and rather slow, although in some cases their dynamics was considerable (Zakopane, Dębica). Only a few large urban settlements in which the number of inhabitants exceeded 30 thousand existed in the analyzed period. Among them were: Cracow, Tarnów, and Nowy Sącz. The number of inhabitants in the majority of the remaining towns did not exceed 10 thousand and the number of such towns increased systematically. The article sketches the problem of the existence and development of small towns in the Cracow Voivodeship in the interwar period. Its author presents the origins of small towns and discusses their character. Then, he analyzes the types, administrative changes and legal status of small towns that were important from the point of view of economic and social changes in the region. Finally, he draws attention to the phenomena connected with the territorial development of small towns and the influence of this development on social changes. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13401 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13400 Miasta regionu górnej Wisły w XIX–XXI w. (1857–2009) Rajman, Jan The article discusses the urban settlement patterns in the upper Vistula region and their changes in the years 1857–2009. The detailed analysis concerns the period from the beginning of forming the basis of industrialization until the contemporary times when the traditional industry has lost its role as a cityforming factor. At the beginning of the 21st century, the region that currently includes 21 districts of the total area of 14,300 km2 was inhabited by 3,5 million people, 55% of whom lived in 62 cities of different size. The analysis that was conducted in a few sub-periods showed that since their establishment, the cities developed mainly due to individually functioning economic and social factors. The fact that large Vistula areas were located on the borderland for an extended period of time played an important role in the process. Later on, industrialization factors led to the creation of a few characteristic settling arrangements which currently create the core of the spatial structure of the upper Vistula region. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13400 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13399 Obiekty sportowe w Krakowie w dobie zaborów i II Rzeczypospolitej Michalski, Czesław Cracow played an important role in the development of sport in Poland. Sport associations and clubs not only propagated sport but also influenced urbanization processes. The first sports facilities in Cracow were built and intended for the “Sokół” association. In 1889, the Jana Meyera company built a sports arena at Wolska Street (currently Piłsudski’s Street). The building was enlarged and reconstructed in 1894 by a famous Cracow architect Teodor Talowski who gave it a neo-Gothic character. An interesting example of an open-air sports area was the Sport Park of dr. Henryk Jordan realized in 1889. Sports activist of the emerging clubs and associations in the first half of the 20th century knew that the basis of financial existence of each club was having its own sports facilities. In 1919, Students’ Sport Association (Akademicki Związek Sportowy, AZS) leased four tennis squares in the Cracow Park where it built tennis courts on which international Cracow championships took place. In 1911, AZS built a rowing landing on the right bank of the Vistula River. In the same year, the Association of Craftsmen and Handicraftsmen Youth (Związek Młodzieży Rzemieślniczej i Rękodzielniczej) built the sport park „Juvenia” in the southern part of Błonia. The next sports facility was created thanks to the efforts of the management board of “Cracovia”. In 1912, the Park of Sports Games of the “Cracovia” Sports Club (Park Gier Sportowych Klubu Sportowego “Cracovia”) was created in the south-eastern part of Błonia. “Wisła” built its own sports park at Oleandry Street in 1914, however, it burnt down a year later. After regaining independence in 1918, Cracow had the best sports equipment in Poland as well as sports fields, modern tennis courts in the Cracow Park, rowing landings, an outdoor swimming pool in the Cracow Park, an indoor swimming pool that was opened in 1927 in the YMCA building. In 1926, the construction of the AZS stadium started. In 1935, the stadium was taken away from the academy youth by the decision of the city authorities and transformed into a city stadium. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13399 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13398 Przekształcenia struktur gospodarki regionu podkarpackiego. Procesy metropolizacji, procesy globalizacji Makieła, Zbigniew The aim of the article is to describe the process of transforming the structure of the economy of Podakrpacie under the influence of metropolisation processes. The region is presented in the view of processes that are changing eastern Poland. Eastern Poland is socially and economically distinct, its specificity requires that special actions are undertaken to eliminate the discrepancies between the region and the rest of the country. The regions of the eastern Poland have the lowest entrepreneurship indicators in the country, and the lowest one is in the Podkarpacie Voivodeship. Synthetic indicator of the potential and strength of the economy GDP per citizen show that the region is economically the weakest. Eastern regions have a defective agrarian structure – high employment rate in agriculture and low marketability of products. The worst situation is in Podkarpacie where 7,4% off all people employed in agriculture work and the value of purchase of agricultural products expressed as grain units is lower than in the rest of Poland. The article presents a thesis that the development of big cities in the east of the country could be an impulse of economic growth of the region. It is necessary to invest in the factors of regional growth, namely building the infrastructure (motorways, fast highways, railway), to create conditions for the development of knowledge-based economy, to invest in human resources and social capital. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11716/13398 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z