Karol Wałachowski
Economist specialising in public policies and urban development, assistant prof. at the University of Economics in Krakow and publicist. Author of the book “Beyond the Greatest”.
According to cautious estimates, around 22 million people live distant from the largest cities in Poland, the majority of Polish citizens. Their situation in comparison with the inhabitants of the largest cities has gradually deteriorated since the political transformation in 1989. – metropolises simply make faster than tiny and medium-sized cities. As this work has shown, there are many reasons for differences.
Karol Wałachowski, “Outside the Greatest”
Karol Wałachowski's book is 1 of the fewer positions in the marketplace dealing with the problems of erstwhile provincial cities in specified a comprehensive way. The author's investigation reveals a complex image of the consequences of Buzek's government reform, among which the dominant trend is unfortunately the degradation of most of the erstwhile administrative centres. A large advantage of the work is besides a comprehensive review of the current state of cognition and investigation on the city as an economical and social phenomenon, which makes it a actual compendium, essential for all self-government, activist or simply a citizen of a city curious in its own environment and ways of influencing its quality..
Prof. Jacek K. Sokołowski, University of Lodz
Dear Prime Minister, we ask you to find the office of the National Centre for the improvement of civilian Society in Łódź.
Appeal of the Institute for civilian Affairs to Prime Minister Beata Szydło (2017)
Karol Wałachowski, author of the book “Beyond the Greatest”, talks to Rafał Górski, editor-in-chief of the Week of civilian Affairs.
- Why should residents of the erstwhile capitals of voivodships be curious in your book?
- The administrative improvement of the government of Jerzy Buzek in 1999 – who benefited from it and who lost it?
- What does this improvement teach us?
- Germany – how do others do it?
- Seven solutions for average cities.
- What should we citizens request from politicians and what should we request from ourselves?
- What question has no 1 always asked you about the things we talk about? And what is the answer to that?
Music "Also Sprach Zarathustra – Einleitung" – Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 3.0
