Kryteria i mierniki urbanizacji

Abstract

The object of the article has been a survey of the most important criteria and indices applied in research on urbanization processes in each of their aspects. The author submits to critical analysis the demographic, settlement, and socio-economic features characterictis of the successive stages of urbanization. Attention is also drawn to the interdependence between the process of urbanization and that of the country’s industrialization, and to the resulting consequences for research. The author, upon studying the literature on the subject, sets forth the list of the most frequently applied indices and exponents of the standard and progress of urbanization.