Przywództwo w wielkich miastach – próba konceptualizacji

The aim of this article is to examine the multidimensional issue of urban leadership and to identify the key theoretical approaches in the study of this fascinating phenomenon. The importance of big cities in both the socioeconomic and political spheres is growing rapidly. The article discusses four leadership trends (political, systemic, community, and global), highlighting their key assumptions and characteristics. The author’s original way of organising deliberations on urban leadership constitutes an attempt to give structure to multithreaded theoretical research in this field