Aleksandra Jadach-Sepioło
Revitalisation as a Tool for Limiting Flight from Blight
Purpose – The main objective of the paper is an analysis of the stimulation of suburbanization trends through the degradation of central areas in cities. The term ‘flight from blight’ is inextricably associated with urban sprawl. These issues are still rarely analysed in Polish literature.
Design/methodology/approach – Data collected by the Central Statistical Office in communes for the years 2018-2019 were used in the work on the article. The research was focused on verifying the hypotheses concerning impact of the intensity of negative social phenomena on the outflow of people from the degraded area (flight from blight) in comparison to other negative phenomena. The second and third analysed hypotheses is relationship between outflow of people from degraded and revitalization areas (flight from blight) and type of the commune.
Findings – It was confirmed that the correlation between negative social phenomena and the outflow of people from the degraded area is the strongest. The decline in the number of inhabitants of the degraded and revitalization area is statistically significant correlated with type of the commune in case of urban and rural ones.
Research limitations – The data available in public statistics and revitalization programs do not allow tracing the direction of migration within individual commune.
Research implications – Verification of the direction of the residents relocation will help to recognize the relationship between suburbanization tendencies in Poland and flight from blight, i.e. an escape from degraded areas.
Keywords: revitalisation; blight; suburbanisation; flight from blight; city centre
JEL codes: R52, R58, R50
Article type: research article
CITATION (APA): Jadach-Sepioło, A. (2021). Revitalisation as a Tool for Limiting Flight from Blight. World of Real Estate Journal, 116(2), 17-29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14659/WOREJ.2021.106.02
