Warunki rozwoju poznańskiego obszaru metropolitalnego

The aim of the article is to characterize activities undertaken in order to ensure the position of Poznań among European metropolises and to work out the principles of spatial development of the Poznań Metropolitan Area. The primary aim is to explain whether the authorities of the voivodeship and the city itself fulfilled the conditions necessary to strengthen the development of this area. We assume that the development of the Poznań Metropolitan Area is determined above all by the features of this territory – the existing path of growth of its metropolis, suggested solutions concerning internal organization, ability to create strategic goals and cooperation between territorial units within the area as well as co-operation with the region’s authorities.The Poznań Metropolitan Area has been developing for more than a decade. This area is characterized by intensive daily flows of people, commodities and information. Moreover, cooperation links are gradually formed in the economy, more intensive in the central zone. This area is the location of activities which supplement the metropolitan functions of Poznań as well as potential investments. Unfortunately, functional integration within the metropolitan area is insufficient and re-urbanization has not brought any spectacular effects so far.Activities of the authorities of Wielkopolskie Voivodeship and of the city of Poznań foster the development of the Poznań Metropolitan Area. All the strategies of regional development formulated so far have underlined the significance of the Poznań metropolis for the maintenance of the level of its competitiveness. Strategic aims of the development of the voivodeship, the Poznań Agglomeration and the city of Poznań are not contradictory. They take into account the importance of the development of the Poznań Metropolis in the plan of spatial development of the e. The plan of spatial development of the Poznań Metropolitan Area has already been prepared The main threat to the metropolitan path of development of Poznań and sustainable growth of the Poznań Metropolitan Area, including its central zone in the form of the Poznań Agglomeration, may be difficulties in a sufficiently fast implementation of the formulated strategic goals. Organizational and financial difficulties in implementation of successive projects may be responsible for the fact that the proposed visions of development of the Poznań Metropolis will remain impossible to attain.