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作者

Katarzyna Przybyła;Marian Kachniarz;David Ramsey

来源

CITIES,Vol.97,Issue1,Article 102505

语言

英文

关键字

Regional capitals;Local government investment;Administrative reform

作者单位

Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Spatial Economics, Grunwaldzka 55, 50-357 Wrocław, Poland;Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Wroclaw, 50-370 Wroclaw, Wrocław, Poland;Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Spatial Economics, Grunwaldzka 55, 50-357 Wrocław, Poland;Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Wroclaw, 50-370 Wroclaw, Wrocław, Poland

摘要

This article aims to identify and assess the investment activity of major Polish cities, taking into account the division into current voivodship cities (regional capitals) and former regional capitals which, as a result of reforms in the public administration system carried out in Poland in the 1990s, lost this function. Based on a group of diagnostic features (cities' investment expenditure per capita, the capital expenditure of cities as a percentage of their total expenditure, the capital expenditure of cities as a percentage of their own revenue), taxonomic synthetic measures were constructed for the studied cities. This research covers the years 2004–2015 – a period of particular investment intensity caused by the inflow of EU funds. It was concluded that even though the status and revenue potential of a city are, to some extent, determined by its investment activity, there are, however, clear examples showing that an appropriate local policy can modify these determinants.