Od wiejskiej osady do przemysłowego miasta. Historia i rozwój urbanistyczny Stąporkowa od XVIII w. do lat sześćdziesiątych XX w.

Urban analysis covers the period from the construction of the first blast furnace in the Konecki estates – 1738/39 until 1967 when Stąporków gained the city rights. The industrial development of the village is connected with Jan Małachowski and Jan Tarnowski. The areas around the steelworks formed the core of the “old” Stąporków developing towards the village of Czarna and the health resort of Czarniecka Góra to the west. Shortly after the Second World War, the industry was reborn in the town. Settlements for the workers of individual factories began to be built. In the 1950s, the first buildings for their employees were erected by the Iron Foundry Stąporków and the Iron Ore Mine. The constructed housing estates became the axis of the “new” Stąporków focusing its spatial development around industrial plants located east of the original settlement. Between these parts, spaces of residential, functional and cultural functions appeared successively. This however, led to the lack of a clearly defined urban center of the location.