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This paper provides an insight into the transformation processes that have affected Upper
Silesia, a Polish border region with long traditions of industrialisation, autonomous
structures and volatile historical changes. It shows how the region, profoundly affected
by the structural crisis of mining and heavy industry and experiencing unfavourable
demographic processes, has managed to recover and prosper under new conditions. In a
fragmented space characterised by strong urbanisation, industrial restructuring has been
based on the renewal of traditional branches and the creation of new development paths
through reindustrialisation and service-based development. The size of Upper Silesia, and
particularly the conurbation surrounding Katowice, has also led to attempts at
establishing effective metropolitan governance, a challenge whose success depends as
much on harmonising internal interests as finding a compromise acceptable by both the
region and the central government
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