Agata Kucharska
DOI: 10.21858/msr.58.04
Vol. no: 58
This article analyses demographic changes and spatial transformations between 2016 and 2023 in the Siedlce Functional Urban Area in relation to the spatial policy pursued by local governments, which is embodied in Studies of Conditions and Directions of Spatial Development of communes. The study provided information on the scale and intensity of suburbanisation processes, determined based on land use changes (in terms of areas occupied by residential and mixed residential-service development) and issued building permits, supplemented by statistical indicators on the intensity of residential development. Furthermore, the increase in urbanised land designated for residential purposes up to 2030 was estimated, taking into account demographic forecasts by Statistics Poland and demographic and spatial changes occurring in the analysed area over the eight-year study period. The conducted analysis served as a basis for formulating recommendations for the communes forming the Siedlce Functional Urban Area to guide their spatial policy towards shaping a coherent and functionally complementary space.