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Treść dotyczy pojęcia miasta-bramy. Artykuł zawiera przyczyny i przesłanki podjęcia tematu, stan wiedzy, hipotezy szans i zagrożeń, postępowanie metodyczne, nowe wyzwania funkcjonalne i zarys prospekcji 6 miast-bram oraz wyniki badań.
EN
Term „city - gates" has been used in UE publication titled" European Spatial Development Perspective - Towards balanced and sustainable Development of the Territory of the European Union - ESDP. City - gates are larger trans-border centres of collaboration and services, locates outside zones of global integration and metropolitan regions, as a rule on the UE periphery areas, near the states not being EU members. Major functions of city - gates are various services, in particular cultual, educationnal, transport logistic centers, administration and tourisme. In Poland on the eastern border in according to the author's proposal the nu - ber of the city - gates could de 10 - Białystok, Elbląg, Lublin, Przemyśl,Suwałki and Zamość. As a matter of fact, additional 4 could be also included - Biała Podlaska, Chełm, Olsztyn and Sanok. In final author's conclusions, there is a proposal directed to the local authorities of selected city - gates, in the period of 10 - 15 years to undertake the task and to prepare the structure of these cities and towns, going step by step, accordingly to the basic proposed functions of future city - gates on eastern outskirts of Poland and to up-grade their role and regional importance.