Alina Źróbek-Różańska

University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn · Department of socio-economic geography

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of unexpected changes, but also provided a unique opportunity to study the rental behavior of students under specific conditions, as lockdowns and implemented restrictions have also reached the sphere of higher education. This article attempts to shed light on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’...

Childhood is considered to be the most vital period for mental, physical, and social development. Even short-term deprivation of nutrition, health care, education, and affection in childhood can have long-term and irreversible negative consequences. Various social assistance programs are being launched around the world to eliminate or alleviate soc...

As the world-wide massive expansion in the number of higher education students has occurred, they are considered as an important driver of urban change. Off-campus student accommodation in the form of shared rental housing has become increasingly significant all over the world, with studies suggesting that this is having important consequences for...

Motives: The main thesis of this article is that the experience of the Polish path of development of the real estate market and the real estate valuation system can serve as useful guidance for Vietnam. Aim: The aim of this article is to present in a historical context the changes that have taken place in the approach to real estate value and the r...

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In many transitional economies all over the world, government and state land agencies continue to intervene in agricultural land market. For example, in post-socialist countries, the frequent legal changes have been affecting i.e. the structure of agricultural land ownership and area of agricultural holdings. The main purpose of this article is to...

This article focuses on the specificity of present enclave structures in rural areas that were created decades ago as a result of decisions to establish housing estates for employees, and which acquired negative features as a result of the liquidation of the monopolistic employer. An attempt has been made to answer if workers' housing complexes can...

Predicting the population size of a city is one of the key tasks preceding the creation of city development plans, seeing as how urban space management should be adequate to current and forecasted economic and social trends, including demographic ones. In many cities of the world, apart from capitals and metropolises, the phenomenon of depopulation...

Land suitable for agricultural production is limited and should be used in a sustainable manner and protected. Countries of the former communist bloc, where the majority of the agricultural land was dynamically privatized, are in a special situation. Land has been used there also to serve the needs of growing cities, for investment speculation and...

Streszczenie. Zarządzanie użytkami rolnymi na obszarach zurbanizowanych lub podlegających presji urbanizacyjnej, do których można zaliczyć tereny położone w granicach administracyjnych miast oraz tereny na obszarach do nich przyległych (tzw. obszary podmiejskie), wymaga uwzględniania aktualnych trendów i zmieniających się uwarunkowań. Wiele procesó...

Students as property tenants are an underestimated and understudied aspect of the market. To date, there has been a widely held opinion that student decisions in the property market and their scope are mostly limited to the area of academic centres. It is estimated that, in Poland, over a million students enter into tenancy agreements annually, mos...

Wiele miast Polski, w szczególności dużych, doświadcza stopniowej depopulacji wynikającej częściowo z migracji mieszkańców. Jednocześnie znaczna część byłych mieszkańców miast podejmuje migracje nieodległe – w kierunku pobliskich wiejskich gmin podmiejskich. Jednak nie wszystkie gminy podmiejskie doświadczają rozwoju zabudowy mieszkaniowej w takim...

Dynamiczne migracje mieszkańców miast w kierunku stref podmiejskich oraz związany z nimi rozwój budownictwa mieszkaniowego na obszarach wiejskich otaczających miasta są zjawiskiem pożądanym przez lokalne władze, budzą jednak również wiele obaw i trosk, w tym związanych z degradacją walorów przyrodniczych. Źródłem tychże obaw jest powszechny osąd, i...

Poland has a turbulent and rich history. Partitions, wars, a centrally planned economy of the socialist era and the rapid transition to a market economy left visible marks on the Polish landscape. The changes that took place in the 20th century and the early 21st century have vastly influenced the country’s architecture. Residential buildings in ru...

Poland has experienced many political, legal, social and economic transformations. For the last twelve decades, this country was under foreign partition, in the war, under the influence of socialist system with centrally planned economy and finally regained autonomy and rapidly introduced market economy. Each epoch had its own characteristic, that...

Efficient managing sustainable urban development requires constant observations of trends in the key areas. One of the important areas is undoubtedly directing development of residential areas within the city and its surroundings. Nowadays, increasing incomes and transport mobility of the city citizens enable choosing between living within the city...

In the last decades residential development in rural areas has aroused great interest. It is particularly the suburban communes that have been adopting a spatial policy conducive to this trend. The communes with protected areas must adjust their spatial tactics to Applausie legal requirements. This article aims at indicating how residential develop...

This paper aims to considering whether protected areas (in particular Natura 2000 areas) are barrier the development of housing opportunities in rural areas. Research in this area, based on the available Polish-language and English-language scientific papers, was conducted in the following aspects: legal, spatial and social. The case studies have s...

Suburbanization means a controversial process and many authors often underline its negative consequences. This paper is aimed at presenting its unobvious effects on the basis of local studies. The relevant analyses were conducted with the descriptive method, complemented with calculations and nuclear estimation. It was observed that suburban reside...

The article aims to present selected transformations of landscape that follow changes in land use designated by suburban municipalities. Currently, under the pressure of suburbanization, suburban rural municipalities are gradually being transformed into urban-style residential units. Modern and dense residential constructions shape the local landsc...

Predicting demand on the residential real estate market and the behavior of the purchasers requires a wide knowledge of both the economic mechanisms and psychology of decision-making. Decisions on the real estate market are often made by people without professional skills, and using simplified strategies. However, the decision-making process, on to...

Currently, new suburban settlements are often being localized in rural areas. As a result of this, rural areas have been taking on various urban functions, especially residential ones. Intense migration has been observed, especially in rural areas neighboring large cities. The urban population has been settling in the most attractive residential lo...

The importance of sustainable development issues requires the engagement of all stakeholders in decision-making processes, as well as developing tactics and strategies. The complexity of this task increases on regional and international levels, where a huge amount of interests intersect or even contradict eachother. Todevelopproperpolicymeasures to...

Real estate buyer can be both professional investor, able to conduct adequate analysis leading to the optimal choice, and ‘ordinary’ person, who achieves knowledge on real estate market from easily accessible sources of information and thus makes the decision on the basis of basic data or own associations. However, while buying residential plot, us...

Nearly every third migrating person in Poland is found to have moved out of the city and into a rural area near big cities. Local authorities should analyze governed area in the terms of residential attractiveness and identify the most attractive localizations prone to residential development concentration. The aim of the article was to apply the w...

Currently, real estate located in rural areas neighboring cities are under pressure to become a location for the realization of urban and metropolitan projects. Thus, spatial conflicts are an inherent characteristic of modern urban development. Such conflicts vary in terms of the scope, intensity and course they take. An interesting case illustrati...

Gospodarka nieruchomościami obejmuje szerokie spectrum zagadnień. W niniejszej monografii skoncentrowano się na wybranych aspektach przestrzennych oraz ekonomicznych gospodarki nieruchomościami występujących na terenach podmiejskich a także na obszarze dużych miast. Podjęta tematyka dotyczy zagadnień ważnych zarówno z punktu widzenia rozważań teore...

In Poland, 82% of forests are State-owned, and only 17% of forests constitute private property. Each year, forests are converted to other land-use types, mainly for road construction. The afforestation rate on privately-owned low-productivity land is decreasing steadily. The owners and perpetual usufructuaries of this kind of land are eligible to g...

The aim of the paper is to analyze the determining factors and assess the effects of the activities undertaken by local authorities aiming at creating attractive locations for private investments. The study covered the selected Polish regions divided into the groups of urban, urban-rural and rural communes. The analysis was conducted with the use o...

Satisfying residents’ needs is the main purpose of local authorities. Given that of the most fundamental of needs is the possibility of receiving fair income from work, local authorities should create an attractive investment climate, consistent with the directions of development described in strategic documents. One of the main directions, both fo...

Suburban areas are subjected to particularly strong investment pressure, thus facing the challenge arising from the need to impose new spatial order. Satisfying the residents’ expectations by implementing necessary technical and social infrastructure becomes a priority. Therefore, public investments play an important role in suburban areas. The art...