Program

The attractiveness of small and medium towns: criteria, issues and strategies
Conference Program
VENUE Pedagogical University in Cracow, Podchorążych Street 2
Institute of Geography 5th Floor
room 532
Wednesday 5th December
9.30-10.15 Registration
10.15- 10.30 Opening
Agnieszka KWIATEK-SOŁTYS – Pedagogical University in Cracow, Kraków, Poland
Welcome address
Tomasz RACHWAŁ – Pedagogical University in Cracow, Kraków, Poland
Opening address
10.30-12.00 Session 1
Chair: Zygmunt GÓRKA – Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Kraków
Hélène MAINET, Jean-Charles EDUARD – Université Blaise Pascal, CERAMAC, ClermontFerrand, France
Indicators of attractiveness of small towns: issues of definition, criteria and indicators
Anna WOJNAROWSKA – University of Lodz, Łodź, Poland
Attractiveness of medium-sized towns of Łódź region – the proposal of spatial and functional
indicators system
Monika MURZYN-KUPISZ – Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland
Using cultural heritage as an asset in local development. Recent experiences of small towns
in Poland
Thomas AREAL – Université Blaise Pascal, CERAMAC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
“Places of writing” and attractiveness. Study of medieval acts from Auvergne, between Dore
and Allier rivers.
Ashfaque ALAM – School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
Attractiveness of medium towns in India: a case of Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh (India)
12.00-12.30 Coffee break
12.30-14.00 Session 2
Chair: Andrzej ZBOROWSKI – Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Kraków
Anna RUNGE – University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland
Medium size towns within the structure of socio-economic links in Katowice conurbation
Lilian CIRNU – University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Residential changes in the Bucharest Metropolitan Area between 1990-2010. Small
and medium sized towns as an alternative to the metropolis
Sergey ELAGIN – Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia
The cities around Moscow and expansion of the Moscow agglomeration
Barbara KONECKA-SZYDŁOWSKA – Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Socio-economic situation of small towns of the Poznań agglomeration
Ekaterina Anatolevna ANTIPOVA, Liudmila Vladimirovna FAKEYEVA – Belarusian State
University, Minsk, Belarus
Functional profile of small towns of Belarus
14.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-16.30 Session 3
Chair: Mirosław WÓJTOWICZ – Pedagogical University in Cracow, Kraków
Sylvain RACAUD – University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Urbanization in east African mountains: Role of the urban system in the organisation
of flows, role of the flows in the organization of the urban system (Uporoto mountains,
Mbeya region, Tanzania)
Mike IRAVO – Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya
Ephantus KIHONGE – Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, France
Secondary towns and rural interactions in Eastern Africa:SMEs in small mountainous towns
and rural economic growth
Milham CHAZE – Université Blaise Pascal, CERAMAC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
The commercial relationships between small towns and their rural environment. A case study
of the Middle East of France
Barbara MACKIEWICZ, Ewa KACPRZAK – Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Supporting the development of a network of markets in small and medium-sized cities in
Poland using the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (programme "My Market")
19.30 Gala Dinner
Thursday 6th December
9.30-11.00 Session 4
Chair: Radosław ULISZAK – Pedagogical University in Cracow, Kraków
Cristina FARCASIU – University of Angers, Angers, France
Small and medium towns in the West of Romania: new dynamics and functions
Tatiana KREYDENKO , Irina RODIONOVA, Uliana MIZEROVSKAYA – Peoples' Friendship
University of Russia, Moscow, Russia
Monogoroda in the conditions of crisis and prospect of their development in modern Russia
Jarosław DZIAŁEK, Krzysztof GWOSDZ – Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Economic activity zones as a tool of strengthening of attractiveness of small and medium
towns in Malopolska region
Sławomir DOROCKI, Marta BOGUŚ – Pedagogical University in Cracow, Kraków, Poland
Jan Paweł JASTRZĘBSKI – University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
Biotechnology in European towns
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Session 5
Chair: Sławomir KUREK – Pedagogical University in Cracow, Kraków
Marie FERRU, Benjamin GUIMOND, Josselin TALLEC – Laboratoire CRIEF, Poitiers, France
Globalization and economic trajectories of small and medium-sized cities: empirical
regularities and differencies
Georgiana EPURE, Daniel RICARD – Université Blaise Pascal, CERAMAC, Clermont-Ferrand,
France
The attractiveness of secondary cities in Central Europe. Some elements of comparison
between Romania and Slovakia. The case of Braila Area and the Upper Váh River Valley
Valentin NEMES, Emil Paul OLAU – University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
Formal and informal planning instruments as catalyst for urban attractiveness. Enhancing
town attractiveness in Beius Land, Romania
Barbara MACKIEWICZ, Ewa KACPRZAK – Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Turnover of undeveloped land located in the area of small towns nearby a large suburban
town center
Bernard CALAS – Universite Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, France
Urbanization processes in Kenya have now gone beyond mere macrocephalia and primacy
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Session 6
Chair: Witold WILCZYŃSKI – Pedagogical University in Cracow, Kraków, Poland
Elżbieta ZUZAŃSKA-ŻYŚKO, Sławomir SITEK – University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland
The small towns in Silesia Region in the context of commuting to work
Wioletta SZYMAŃSKA – Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Słupsk, Poland
Housing attractiveness of the medium-sized cities in Pomerania in light of the ecentralization
theory
Valerie JOUSSEAUME – Universite de Nante, Nante, France
Magali TALANDIER – Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
The role of small towns in the dynamics of the French countryside
Agnieszka KWIATEK-SOŁTYS, Krzysztof WIEDERMANN – Pedagogical University in Cracow,
Kraków, Poland
Implementation of cittaslow idea in small towns of Poland and France
Agnieszka KWIATEK-SOŁTYS, Krzysztof WIEDERMANN – Pedagogical University in Cracow,
Krakow, Poland
Hélène MAINET, Jean-Charles EDUARD – Université Blaise Pascal, CERAMAC, ClermontFerrand, France
Quality of life and attractiveness of small towns in Poland and France
Disscussion
Friday 7th December
8.00-18.00 Field Trip