Urban Features in Rural Landscape: A Case Study of the Municipality of Skawina

Magdalena Wilkosz-Mamcarczyk,Barbara Prus,Barbara Olczak

doi:10.3390/su12114638

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https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114638

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Jun 5, 2020
Citations: 15	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: University of Agriculture in Krakow

Abstract

Events associated with growing suburbanisation and transport infrastructure lead to changes in the use of rural land reaching further and further from the central city. The present research focuses on the impact of the location of the municipality of Skawina and the functioning of its rural areas in the impact zone of Kraków. The first step to determine the transformations in the municipality of Skawina caused by the growth of Kraków and its suburban zone was to investigate the internal conditions in the municipality, such as its spatial development or functional structure, and external conditions such as its demographic transformations. Next, the development of the settlement structure in recent years and land management changes were investigated. The paper focuses on the introduction of typical urban features and functions into rural areas to identify the transformations and their dynamics. The status of the space was diagnosed by interpreting the map documentation for the administrative boundaries of the municipality of Skawina, regarding the presentation of the spatial development in 2006 and in 2014 to 2016, by verifying the existing planning documentation, and by visiting the site. The conclusions can be the basis for guidelines to protect the traditional rural and cultural landscape near Kraków.

Highlights

Rapid economic development, population growth, and increasing industrialisation lead to a faster and more substantial urban expansion, which has had an impact on the historical environment of rural areas
The results present the dynamic of changes, the main directions of the transformations leading to the urbanisation of the countryside, and their consequences for the rural landscape
The results indicate that the areas at the greatest risk of semiurbanisation in Skawina are the villages bordering on urban areas of both the town of Skawina: Rzozów (RZ) and the city of Kraków: Kopanka (KO), all within the Kraków Metropolitan Area

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Introduction

Population growth, and increasing industrialisation lead to a faster and more substantial urban expansion, which has had an impact on the historical environment of rural areas. The expansion of urban structures known as urban sprawl was noted in the USA in the 1960s. In the 1950s, the first efforts were made in the USA to study systematically the interrelationship between transport and the spatial development of cities. Deconcentrated urban land use was mostly associated with factors related to the general drift in developed societies and government policy regarding spatial planning. Urban changes stem from general changes in western societies such as increased wealth, economic and demographic changes, innovation in transport technology, and historical city development [6]

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