Science4Business

As part of the project, a method of delimitation of the central zone of the city was developed, which can be used at the initial stage of the spatial planning process to identify the study area and to investigate how it is used by humans. The result of applying the method, the product, is a map of urbanization levels and a map of real estate prices in Krakow, which will make it possibble to objectively determine the boundaries of the central zone in the city. Knowing where the boundaries of the city’s central zone are, one can optimize the location of retail and services, industrial planta, or residential areas. The results can be used for integrated planning when making investment plans. The product was created using a proprietary method for determining the level of urbanization of an area enriched with the analysis of the real estate market. This method can be applied to any area in the world. The innovative character of the method of delimitation of the central zone of a city, using cadastral data and data from the real estate market, lies in a new way of using these data. They are a source of information about spatial phenomena occurring in large areas, and not, as before, about individual parcels or properties.