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Quaestiones Geographicae
Volume 38 (2019): Issue 2 (June 2019)
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Urban Shrinkage and Regeneration of an Old Industrial City: The Case of Wałbrzych In Poland
Emilia Jaroszewska
Emilia Jaroszewska
| May 13, 2019
Quaestiones Geographicae
Volume 38 (2019): Issue 2 (June 2019)
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Published Online:
May 13, 2019
Page range:
75 - 90
Received:
Feb 25, 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2019-0023
Keywords
urban shrinkage
,
old industrial city
,
regeneration strategies
,
Wałbrzych
,
Poland
© 2019 Emilia Jaroszewska, published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
Fig. 1
Heuristic model of urban shrinkage.Source: Haase et al. (2014: 1525).
Fig. 2
Location of Wałbrzych in Poland.Source: own compilation.
Fig. 3
Population of Wałbrzych in the years 1945–2015.Source: own compilation based on Central Statistical Office (GUS) data.
Fig. 4
Annual population growth/decline in Wałbrzych as compared with the country in 1945–2015.Source: own compilation based on Central Statistical Office (GUS) data.
Fig. 5
Natural increase/decrease in Wałbrzych, cities in Poland and Poland in 1952–2015.Source: own compilation based on Central Statistical Office (GUS) data.
Fig. 6
Direction of changes in the demographic development of Wałbrzych in the years 1975–2015 based on the Webb typology.Source: own compilation based on Central Statistical Office (GUS) data.
Fig. 7
Unemployment rate 2002–2015 (%) (end-of-the-year figures).Source: own compilation based on Central Statistical Office (GUS) data.
Number of the unemployed and job offers in the Labour Office in the years 1990–2015 (data as at the end of December).
1990
*
1992
*
1997
*
2002
2005
2010
2015
Unemployed registered
9,320
21,070
10,432
15,518
12,717
7,079
4,088
With right to unemployment benefit
–
–
3,490
3,024
2,056
1,658
601
Number of job offers
39
70
28
0
0
44
1,242