W artykule przedstaw iono zastosow anie koncepcji urbanizacji wewnątrzmiejskiej
w ocenie syntetycznej struktury przestrzennej słowackiego miasta Preszowa. Na podstawie
analizy czynnikowej oraz bonitacji punktowej określono wskaźnik poziomu urbanizacji
wewnątrzmiejskiej. Analizowano układ przestrzenny stopnia urbanizacji wewnątrzmiejskiej
Preszowa i zidentyfikowano główne czynniki, wywierające wpływ na kształtowanie się
struktury przestrzennej Preszowa.
Cities belong to the most complicated objects of geographical research. Our research is
based on the following premise: (a) the inner spatial differentiation of the city area is
significant, (b) the spatial differentiation of the city area can be viewed from four different
points: urban-physiographical, morphological, functional and socio-demographical. In concordance
with the above mentioned standpoints it is possible to identify partial structures of the spatial
city superstructure as physiographical, morphological, functional and socio-demographical. We
suppose that the homogeneous morphological units are the most durable ones and thus they
are considered to be the most appropriate territorial divisions for the purpose of observation
for the following stages of analysis. We suppose to make use of concept of differential degree
of intraurban urbanization in the synthetic evaluation of the spatial city structure, which
should serve as a complex index of the inner differentiation of the city area. We assume that
this complex index of intraurban urbanization can be constructed on the base of partial indices characterizing its morphological, functional and socio-demographical aspects. We assume that
the complex index of intraurban urbanization tends tow ards concentric-zonal model of
arrangem ent. We suppose that multivariate statistical methods, especially that o f factor
analysis are contributive methods in constructing the complex index o f intraurban urbanization.
When form ulating the model of spatial structure of the city we assume that the method of
correlation analysis of the values of partial indices as well as that of the complex index and
also the values of the distance of territorial units from city centre, will significantly contribute
to our research. Our research the city of Presov has confirmed that from the point of view
of the degree of urbanization, the city of Presov area has a significant spatial differentiation.
The territorial arrangem ent of this complex index is very near to the contrentic-zonal model.