@ARTICLE{Musiał-Malago’_Monika_Methodological_2018, author={Musiał-Malago’, Monika}, number={No 272}, journal={Biuletyn KPZK}, pages={174-187}, howpublished={online}, year={2018}, publisher={PAN, Komitet Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju}, abstract={Since the second half of the 20th century many cities in Poland lose population and the rate is more than likely to increase in future. The determinants that have the greatest impact on the process of shrinking cities are those related to economic transformation and restructuring of the so called traditional industry and consequences of the second demographic transition. In general, it can be distinguished a few main drivers for shrinkage of cities: transformation, suburbanization, demographic change (e.g. falling birth rates, outmigration in rural depopulation areas), environmental pollution. Shrinkage is a varied phenomenon because of its multidimensional, multiscalar and multitemporal character. But the multifacted character of these processes renders their recognition and estimation difficult. The purpose of the article is to identify the sorts of shrinking cities and to presents method of measuring this process. This paper presents the differentiation of shrinking cities process in Poland on the basic of selected empirical indicators. A detailed analysis was conducted in cities with more than 100 thousand inhabitants in the period of 2000–2017.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Methodological Aspects of Identyfication and Measuring Shrinking}, URL={http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/112215/PDF-MASTER/Biuletyn%20KPZK%20272%20Musia%C5%82-Malago%E2%80%99.pdf}, keywords={urban shrinkage, depopulation, cities, Poland}, }