Behavioural Aspects of Office Space Structures in the City: The Case of Warsaw’s Business Districts

Agglomeration and urbanisation externalities accelerate the concentration of commercial activities in urban space creation business districts. As a result, besides usual central district (CBD), large cities also have more recent, peripheral, specialised secondary districts (SBDs). There is little substantial research on formation SBDs rapidly globalising, semi-peripheral locations, especially post-socialist metropolises Central Eastern Europe. This includes Warsaw, Poland, which being transformed into an emerging global metropolis. The article aims to determine differences between CBD SBD Warsaw terms their attractiveness companies employees spatial behaviours employees, transport shopping. hypotheses indicate two type agglomeration economies, accessibility, components competitive advantage, as well characteristics those data are from survey conducted 2017–2018 among both districts, they analysed using basic statistical techniques discriminatory analysis. results confirmed there significant areas, mainly accessibility externalities. In transport, greater role for public rail motorway airport proximity SBD. Urbanisation significantly diminished by traffic congestion study revealed that development areas Warsaw—a city with neoliberal model planning—follows only some aspects patterns other Western European metropolises.