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Objectives and Assumptions of the Project
Bydgoszcz-Torun Metropolitan Area is of primary importance for the shaping of the
potential and development opportunities of the whole Kujawsko-Pomorskie
Voivodship. Both capital cities of the region – Bydgoszcz and Toruń – as well as, the
rural counties of Bydgoszcz and Torun are included in BTMA (altogether BTMA
comprises as many as 19 communes). The dominating role of BTMA in proper
functioning of the whole voivodship is marked by: its unchallenged role in catering for
higher-level services associated with BTMA’s regional and supraregional functions
largely being the key to the level of competitiveness and innovativeness of the whole
region (university level education, science, culture, medical care, media, business
environment); its being the communication hub for both regional and interregional
communication routes (the region’s main communications junction concentrating all
routes vital for appropriate functioning of the region and its contact with other
regions); and finally, a remarkable demographic potential (despite BTMA taking up as
little as approximately 16% of the region’s total area, over 36% of the population live
there; the real ratio of population concentration is even higher due to the fact that the
level of forestation largely exceeds the average figures).
The primary objective of the analyses of the potential of BTMA is determination of the
extent to which this area, vital for the functioning of the whole region, is capable of
catering also for local needs connected with everyday life of the residents and with
appropriate functioning of socio-economic systems, especially including:
- the demographic description necessary for forecasting the scale of demographic
development and future demographic structure;
- description of the settlement system and servicing potential;
- description of economy (entrepreneurship, agriculture, tourism);
- description of the communications system both internal and external.
It has been agreed in the assumptions to the project that the works will result in
creation of text elaborations and detailed maps (1: 50 000 scale) to be used for The
Plan of Development and Spatial Management of Bydgoszcz-Toruń Metropolitan Area
as the study stage of the conducted analyses. The potential target group of these
analyses should also be county and commune self-governments with public service
and transport tasks remaining within their remit.
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