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Suburban Morphology Dynamics: The Case of the Tricity Agglomeration, Poland

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  • Barbara Korwel-Lejkowska

    (Department of Landscape Research and Environmental Management, University of Gdańsk, Bazynskiego 4, 80-309 Gdańsk, Poland)

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Suburbanization is a phase of the development of cities that consists in the growth of the suburban zone at the expense of the city center, which becomes gradually depopulated. The phenomenon of uncontrolled suburbanization ( urban sprawl ) causes infrastructural (including transport), environmental, social, economic, and legal problems. This paper presents the results of a study of the phenomenon of suburbanization conducted on the basis of vector data using two methods: one based on the use of a grid of primary square fields, and one based on the use of concentric zones/rings. The analyses were conducted in the surroundings of the Tricity agglomeration, which is located in the northern part of Poland on the Gulf of Gdansk, and covered the period from 2000 to 2018. Using a grid of primary fields, the areas of the greatest increase and decrease in the developed areas, irrespective of administrative boundaries, were determined for the selected periods, and the areas of the constant positive and negative balance of the buildings were identified. Using concentric rings, the process of the shifting of the new development zones was traced. The paper also refers to the route of the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway (PKM), which was commissioned in 2015, and its potential impact on suburbanization in the Tricity area. The results made it possible to trace the suburbanization process in time and space and to learn the advantages and disadvantages of the use of vector data in spatial studies.

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  • Barbara Korwel-Lejkowska, 2021. "Suburban Morphology Dynamics: The Case of the Tricity Agglomeration, Poland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-18, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:21:p:12223-:d:672982
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