1. Małgorzata Flaga - Demographic consequences of suburbanization in selected towns in the eastern borderlands of Poland /5 2. Wiesława Gierańczyk - Development of high technologies as an indicator of modern industry in the UE /23 3. Anna Kibych - Hutsulshchyna and public progress /37 4. Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska, Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko, Robert Szmytkie - Role of services in the economies of small towns of Silesia region and Wielkopolskie voivodship /51 5. Paweł Kretowicz - The infl uence of socio-economic factors upon public health on the example of Podkarpackie voivodship /63 6. Katarzyna Kulczyńska - The Gubin-Guben transborder urban complex as an arena of consumer behaviour /79 7. Grzegorz Masik - The quality of life of suburbanities: a case study of the Gdańsk agglomeration /91 8. Monika Stanny - Spatial diversifi cation of the balance on the labour market in rural areas in Poland /103