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The paper discusses land property management within the areas of three metropolitan cities of Poland (Kraków, Poznań and Szczecin) in 2001-2008, utilization of urban space and changes in functional and spatial structure of land use. The goal of the paper was to discuss the condition and directions of changes in municipal land properties, the structure of their distribution, and management of municipal land stock in order to secure it for public investment projects and for social, transport and technical infrastructure projects, as well as possibilities of preparing land for metropolitan projects, as well as land offers for those investors whom the municipality wants to attract. Also, the main problems which impede the implementation of spatial policies in communes are shown here.