The paper describe dynamic of Warmia and Mazury region development on a base of changes analysis of various components of his development taking in to consideration statistical analysis from 1998 to 2004 year. Researches lean on factor basis that create development of middle and big cities of this region comparing to factors of Warmia and Mazury province development. The main conclusion of the paper is that mostly big cities of the region have vider influence of development in this area at this same time in a middle cities of the region it is evident lower tendency (recession).

The study characterises the changes in natural changes and the structure of population in rural and town-rural communes of Lower-Silesia Voivodship in the years 1988, 1996 and 2002. The analyses of the selected demographic processes taking place in the rural areas of the voivodship were divided into the following thematic groups: population growth, number of females per 100 males and age groups within the voivodship. Moreover, the study analyses the differences in the rate of population growth within the years in which the analysis was conducted. The results of the study will make it possible to select the communes with favourable, average and unfavourable demographic changes within the analysed features and to present them in a form of cartograms.

Rural development is the very important task. Agriculture and rural areas in Poland it is a field for land use planners, land managers and project’s leaders. The problems, which ought to solve, are: urban development, population-problems, social security and infrastructure (roads, water lines and other). The catalogue of all enterprises, used during the improving of rural areas, with the precise sequence we call modern land consolidation. Paper contains the describing of the single example such modern land consolidation in Siedliska.

The subject of analyzes is the form of functioning, the relevance of the transformation and possibilities of the development of villages that neighbour on state border localized in the municipality of Ladek Zdroj, district Klodzko, province Dolny Slask. The scope of the subject includes three aspects. First one is the description of the current status quo, second one – the estimation of present form of the functioning of the unit and third one sketchy depiction of possible trends and forms of development. It was assumed that future form of the unit should keep following features: a) qualifying object as „stricte” village; b) of the regional cultural environment that document local specific of the region. Obtained effects point at variety of the phases of transformation of current structures. The systems were identified where the meaning of characteristics disappeared where the relevance of features is by now minimal, symbolical and third one – where transient forms exist. For every situation certain proposals of depiction of development are determined.