area of influence. Since the transition period, services, and particularly high-order services, have grown more rapidly in … downtown Warsaw, in the district of Sródmiescie, as was shown in a previous paper by Bourdeau-Lepage. Combining several Polish … specialized high-order services, we propose to analyze in detail the concentration of metropolitan functions in Warsaw and to …

of a metropolis is the coordination of economiec activities at a world scale. This function has been applied to different … terms of agglomeration economies. In the pre-industrial period, the trading metropolis coordinates long range trade. The … industrial revolutions generate new needs for coordination of production and give rise to the manufacturing metropolis. Finally …

reorganization of the urban structure of Warsaw. The analysis of this process introduces the Central and Oriental European Countries … the Warsaw?s suburbs. However, the central districts are largely the most important in terms of population and employment … suggests the existence of a catching-up process. Thus, the geography of employment changes shows that Warsaw presents an …

economic transition in Poland leads to a restructuration of economic activities which affects spatial patterns of cities …, especially in Warsaw. Analyzing the location and re-location of population and employment in Poland's capital allows to enlarge … city keeps a strong monocentric character. However, from 1994 to 1999, population and employment move towards the Warsaw …