Społeczne problemy rozwoju wielkich miast Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej

The period of system transformation (particularly in the first decade of transformation) is time of a demographic crisis in the majority of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It also influ- enced unfavourably a demographic situation in the big cities in both of these regions. The specificity of the process of transformation of developing quickly big cities of Central and Eastern Europe into contemporary metropolises consists in both taking into account universal factors influencing this process and also unique factors characteristic only for this group of cities. The largest cities of Poland are the best ex ample of it.