Demographic Changes in the Cities of Lower Silesia in the Perspective of Sustainable Development

The article discusses and evaluates, against the background of selected issues in theory urban demography concerning sustainable development, changes number inhabitants Lower Silesian cities, to indicate possible development paths for individual categories cities. All cities are subject study. research covered period 2000-2020. categorised into small, medium, large, their specific characteristics primarily related location. uses a descriptive method, simple statistical methods, comparative analysis, an expert method. latter proposed division terms demographic city categories. results show that (as group) ageing, regardless size, yet detailed case study indicated relatively large group (mainly small) with growing population growth potential.