Assessment of territorial cohesion in terms of technical infrastructure of rural areas in comparison with cities

The paper assesses territorial cohesion in terms of technical infrastructure of rural areas in 2005, 2010 and 2015 and their implications in making up for the development distance compared to urban cities. Based on statistics from the GUS Local Data Bank, the synthetic technical infrastructure development indicator was calculated for all gminas in Poland (2476), using the Z. Hellwig method. The studies showed that the spatial structure of Poland was subject to significant changes associated with the development of technical infrastructure. Characteristic of this process are the growing disparities between dynamically developing units and regional facilities. Polarisation of the technical infrastructure development level is strong and persistent in the city-countryside arrangement while it is definitely lower in the West-East of Poland arrangement.