THE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT INDEX AS A TOOL FOR THE EVALUATION OF SOCIO-SPATIAL INEQUITIES

The growing problem of unsustainable development has become the premise for the development of socio-economic research, which involved a large number of development analyses measured at the regional level. Taking into account the alarming rise in socio-spatial inequities and the negative phenomena which accompany them such as gentrification, poverty and social marginalisation it is essential to establish a method of implementing a regional socio-economic development index at the local level. Therefore, the authors of the article focused on measuring development at the local level, at the same time reflecting the manner of functioning of the internal structure and determining weak zones within the space of the city of Wroclaw.