Peripheral Cities in the European Community: Challenges, Strategies and Prospects

Dawson, Jon

doi:10.1177/095207679200700102

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“…They have for long been seen as a spatial symbol of central and centralizing forces, especially the cities of industrialization fed by uprooted rural populations. Situated along the Danube, towns show a strong peripherability which is assessed in both geographical and economic terms as there is a close correlation between location and economic performance (Dawson, 1992).The economic performance of peripheral cities is comparatively weak and very often constrained by underdeveloped economic structures, a dependence on relatively small regional and local markets and the absence of efcient communication links to the national "core" and other peripheral urban centers. Second, it is about the agricultural legacy of the region and consequently the high level of rurality.…”

Section: Deindustrialization Of the Danube Townsmentioning

confidence: 99%

After deindustrialisation: Changing urban economy in the Danube valley region

Claudia¹

2016

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The paper is aiming to discuss the role of deindustrialization in generating socioeconomic dislocation at regional level. The change of industry along the way from the centrallyplanned to market oriented economy, while redening the spatial patterns of growth and decline, has combined with emergent forms of social and economic inequality. The specic aims of the paper are twofold. First, having the privilege of a two and a half-decade long perspective, the paper looks back at the period of deindustrialization, pinpointing the successive waves of employment decline in the wider context of the extensive process of economic restructuring. Second, using methods of spatial analysis, the paper examines the new distribution pattern of industrial change in the Danube region, specifying in empirical terms the relation with evolutionary trends and regional specialization. The ndings pinpoint at the consequences of the far-reaching deindustrialization process on the regional economic base of the Danube towns.

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Section: Deindustrialization Of the Danube Townsmentioning

confidence: 99%