Metodyczne aspekty identyfikacji procesów semiurbanizacji na obszarach wiejskich

Semi-urbanisation understood as the incomplete urbanisation of rural areas has a significant impact on their development. The multifacted character of semi-urbanisation processes renders their recognition and estimation difficult. The article presents a framework of semi-urbanisation processes then focuses on the main dilemmas and questions that accompany them; the answers to these questions determine the accuracy of analyses. It also describes other authors' approaches to the problems of semi-urbanisation. The final part of the paper proposes a set of indices that can function as the basis for semi-urbanisation analyses.