640 Human Factors of a Global Society
The noticeable concentration of investments and modern types of economic activity in large
cities and their functional regions causes selective migration to these locations. This phenomenon
is increasing their human capital resources at the expense of smaller (peripheral) areas and condi-
tions larger opportunities, both economic and developmental ones, of large/larger cities. Cities are
becoming attractive places for new inhabitants who are the sources of new ideas and solutions to the
existing or the emerging issues and problems (Gorzelak and Smętowski 2005, pp. 58–63).
Continuous elimination of free trade limitations, the freedom of capital ow, privatization of
companies and sectors, and liquidation or ...