Niniejszy artykuł prezentuje zmiany struktury gospodarczej 10 małych miast, położonych w bezpośrednim sąsiedztwie strefy wewnętrznej Aglomeracji Górnośląskiej. W pierwszej części autor koncentruje się na analizie potencjalnych funkcji małych miast, następnie przedstawia ich podstawową charakterystykę, a w zakończeniu podejmuje próbę oceny zmian sektora usług w małych miastach w latach 2002‒2009, stanowiących bezpośrednie zaplecze Górnośląskiego Związku Metropolitalnego.
The processes of metropolisation of the urban agglomeration wo
rk,
in favour of
energising the
spatial and economic changes in small towns located in its oute
r zone, as
well as in favour of the
development of their specialized functions. The rate of the
transformation of the functional structure of small towns located in
metropolitan areas
depends on many factors, so the formation processes of local poles of service and
economic activity can take place in different ways and in different locations.
The aim of the article is to present changes of the economic and functional
structure
of 10 cities having a population of less than 20 thousand, placed in the direct
neighbourhood of the inner zone of
Upper
-
Silesian Agglomeration.
The following
centres belong to this group: Bieruń, Imielin, Lędziny, Łazy, Pyskowice, Radzionków,
Siewierz, Sławków, Sośnicowice and
Wojkowice.
The first part of the paper attempts to present the potential functions of small towns
in the outer zone of the urban agglomeration, which is undergoing the metropolisa
tion
process. Later sections of
the study
present the basic characteristics of the small towns
located in the immediate vicinity of the
inner zone of the Upper Silesian Agglomeration
and then attempts to analyse the changes in
the
service sector in small towns which
constituted a direct base for
the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union between 2002 and
2009.