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2.    In the last edition of the generał plan for the town of Kraków, approved in 1958, the special study included also a close examination of the relief and hydrographic conditions of the whole area of the town in its administrative limits on the scalę of 1 : 10,000. In this study the cooperation of geographers, morphologists and hydrographers was tested for the first time in their common effort over the urban plan of Kraków. In the second stage of this work which is to revise the plan of 1958 the scope of the plan will include the whole ensemble of the town, i.e. the city and its environment. One of the first and essential subjects of the study of the town’s geographic environment was that taken up by the Physical Geography Center of the Kraków University which, in agree-ment with our planning office, produced a geomorphological map of the whole urban ensemble.

The substance of this map, its degree of precision and the means of preparation were discussed with the planning office before the effort was laken .up in 1957. The discussion started with taking up the matter of the key to the geomorphologic map and it was composed according to the generał programme of the complex geographic research of the Polish Academy of Science. In the discussion account was also taken of the experience which the Bureau had gained when using geomorphologic maps of Kraków, and of the experience of those who had produced the map.

3.    The aim of this map was to classify the landforms which would be morę or less useful for different kinds of utilization. The Workshop was obliged to choose between the different conditions of utilization and to determine the destination of the areas according to different forms of utilization, such as urban and rural settlements, communication, industry, recreation grounds, agriculture etc. The morphologic map helped to carry out the first elimination of unsuitable areas, as it clearly exposes the difficulties which would arise for different forms of utilization. The map also allows to discover those areas which are most suitable for different kinds of utilizing the ground. The finał choice of an area was of course also influenced by the results of other studies, such as the study of hydrography, of the climate, soil, of natural and landscape values, communication possibilities and the whole series of problems related to man and to economics.

For practical use of the map the choice of an adeąuate scalę was of great importance. A generał plan of a town and of its surrounding areas ought to establish, on the basis of the map, a good approximate definition of the location of the settlement areas and it should also define their possibilities of absorption. It must also tracę the course of the roads of communication and fix the limits of the different means of utilizing the grounds. Special studies must, therefore, take into account the morpho-metry, i.e. the special dimensions of the given phenomena. A scalę of 1 : 25,000 has proved to be sufficient for those aims as the map conforms very closely to the situation in the area.

4.    As cooperation between the Bureau and the Physical Geography Center proceded, it became necessary to broaden the initial programme. The pioneering character of this cooperation should here be stressed, as it went on from day to day and was simultaneous to the field-work, to the designing of the map and to the edition of its explanatory descrip-tions. During this work it became, for instance, necessary to design a synthetic and basie geomorphological map. Though the first key was

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