%0 Journal Article
%T Disintegration of urban-rural conglomerates in Poland
%A Szmytkie, Robert
%J Geographical Studies
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/20833113PG.16.026.6088
%N Issue 147
%P 145-168
%K urban-rural conglomerates, disintegration processes, secession processes, territorial division, administrative changes of towns
%@ 1644-3586
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-geograficzne/article/dezintegracja-zlepiencow-miejsko-wiejskich-w-polsce-w-latach-2008-2016
%X 
	The main object of this paper was an analysis of the causes and effects of the disintegration of urban-rural conglomerates (urban communes with a dual, urban and rural spatial character). In the years 2008-16 4 urban communes changed their status into urban-rural (Szczawnica in 2008, Czarna Woda in 2014, Władysławowo in 2015 and Pieszyce in 2016), which involved a secession of 15 rural administrative units. In the justifications of the Council of Ministers regulations financial benefits and functional, structural-spatial and social factors were indicated as the reasons for, that the changes in the status of communes. In the nearest years secession tendencies are most probable in the case of towns divided into rural administrative units and towns containing separate settlements of a rural character (former villages). Secession of rural administrative units in the case of urban communes can be formally conducted in three ways: changing the commune status from urban to urban-rural, dividing the urban commune into two communes (urban and rural) and through the incorporation of rural administrative units functioning in city borders into existing rural communes.