Aims, Rules and Instruments of the Urban Policy of Małopolskie Voivodeship. The paper provides a contribution to the debate on the model of regional urban policy in Poland. The authors present aims, rules and major instruments of urban policy proposed for the self-government of the Małopolskie Voivodeship. They are a result of broader studies on urban development in the Małopolskie Region and its determinants carried out by the team of researchers of the Jagiellonian University and the Cracow University of Economics in 2012-2013. The authors argue that regional urban policy should focus on urban functional areas rather than on towns and cities only and should put strong emphasis on the facilitating of co-operation of various public and private stakeholders within the region
