Dr Alina Kulczyk-Dynowska

The neighbourhood of the rural area and the large cities

The quest for the multifunctionality of rural areas and the search for new places for the implementation of the housing investment is the reason that village today is treated not only as a place of agricultural production. Economic balance decides of the use of the factors of production- and, after all, one of them is earth - in a market economy. As a result the decline in profitability of agricultural pro-duction leads to the limitations of agricultural activity and the destination of the earth for other purposes. Transformations in the rural area entail broad changes in the local com-munity. The share of people without farm and completely unconnected with the agriculture increases in it. Traditionally understood urbanization processes envis-aged movement of the rural population to the city. Meanwhile, increasingly, there is an opposite tendency. Due to the small size of the rural communities an important issue are contacts on the line native inhabitants of the village and the newcomers. The difficulties in assimilation of newcomers, the breakdown of the communities in two, representing different values and interests of the group may be the start of the creation of the specific internal barriers of local development.The effect of the ...