Hungary: urbanization and the urban network
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A discussion of Hungary's urbanization, its urban network and the factors which local authorities consider in regulating human settlements is presented. The number of the country's towns have almost doubled in the last ten years. As of 1997, the number of urban settlements constituted about 43% of all towns while the amount of population increase was significantly lesser. Some of the factors which are considered in regulating settlements are infrastructural development, quality of public utilities, cultural heritage and ability to construct workplaces. Hungary's urban system has exhibited remarkable development ever since its political system was changed.
Publication Name: EKISTICS: the problems and science of HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-2942
Year: 1997
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Rural settlements in Hungary after 1989
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A research project was initiated in 1998 concerning the Hungarian rural transformation is discussed in order to define how the political, social and economic factors together with the local factors affectedr the rural population and living conditions and reaction of the rural actions. The study revealed that the combination of processes that has taken place till date in Hungarian rural settlements was extremely complicated as the supply of rural settlements with infrastructure has improved.
Publication Name: EKISTICS: the problems and science of HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-2942
Year: 1999
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The periphery in the center: Some political features of Turkish urbanization
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The center and the periphery have long been concepts in Turkish politics and also in the analysis of the political dimensions of urbanization. A more striking feature of Turkish urbanization patterns is that there are deep contrasts in the internal structures of major metropolitan centers as appeared between illegally built-up squatter settlements and regularly constructed residential areas
Publication Name: EKISTICS: the problems and science of HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-2942
Year: 2003
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