Nowadays, a rapid development of metropolises is connected with the pressure on urbanizing, which leads to a sharp increase in developed areas as well as urbanized areas. As this trend becomes more dynamic, cities sprawl beyond their administrative boundaries, causing spatial disintegration and hindering sustainable development of a given area. Increased dispersion of residential area results in extensive and chaotic spatial development, stimulated by numerous real estate investments on buildable areas that are not adapted to the current demographic projections. Consequently, it is difficult to provide technical infrastructure systems and ensure an unlimited access to public services. However, changes in law have led to the creation of national databases of topographic objects, under the EU provisions and the INSPIRE directive, which helped increase the scope and specificity of currently conducted spatial analyses, at the same time enabling a precise identification of areas that should be subject to further urbanization as well as areas which are characterized by the lack of access to technical infrastructure and basic social infrastructure – the two deciding factors when it comes to the quality of life and the costs borne by the country and the residents. The aim of the following paper is to discuss new possibilities and ways of managing sustainable development of a metropolitan area, on the example of Gdańsk and its surrounding area, which is put under the pressure of urbanization, covers services of supra-regional importance and encompasses economic activity that is directly or indirectly connected with the sea.
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- Category
- Aktywność konferencyjna
- Type
- publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2015
