Strategic and Socio-Economic Implications of Urban Regeneration in Hungary

Egedy, Tamás

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20314-5_11

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“…In these countries, the proportions of those who are expelled from the cities and those who came from the peripheries of the country due to the rising cost of living are high. Urbanization and suburbanization, thus, emerged within a short period, along with many other internal migration patterns, which were hampered by socialist settlement policies [9,12,13,53,70,71].…”

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Suburbanization within City Limits in Hungary—A Challenge for Environmental and Social Sustainability

Vasárus

Lennert

2022

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Suburbanization is one of the most prominent processes of post-socialist urban development, leading to the deconcentration of people, capital, as well as productive and non-productive activities within the functional urban area. This phenomenon also has a significant impact on the traditional rural landscape and leads to environmental and social sustainability challenges. Outmigration from the city center to the rural municipalities of the agglomeration ring is already a thoroughly studied topic. However, less attention is given to migration processes not crossing municipal borders. In Hungary, a significant fraction of them is driven by similar motivations as “traditional” suburbanization. Such movements include flows to built-up residential areas that are physically separated from the urban core. Due to their peculiar development path, the inhabited outskirts can also become destinations for within-city migration. This kind of mobility can be considered suburbanization within the city limits. Because of the general lack of data, this phenomenon is seldom researched. However, this study attempts to address this gap. The prevalence of this process in Hungary is explored by analyzing national statistical data sources. Four case studies are selected for detailed examination—Győr, Zalaegerszeg, Kecskemét, and Szeged. GIS methods, field examinations, surveys, and expert interviews are used to get a detailed picture of the demographic and land cover change processes, as well as the distinctions between the destination areas of the case studies. A comparison of the results drawn from the different methods reveals that land use change in the study area is more widespread than what the land cover datasets indicate. The findings indicate that the Corine Land Cover categories describing mixed land use—especially complex cultivation patterns—are not able to capture the drastic function shift caused by intense suburbanization. Different environmental and social sustainability issues are identified depending on the economic status of the outmigrants. This paper also sheds some light on the urban planning considerations of this emerging challenge.

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Suburbanization within City Limits in Hungary—A Challenge for Environmental and Social Sustainability

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2022

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“…The study of quality of life is an examination of various impacts upon the goodness and meaning in life, as well as people's happiness and well-being (McCall 1975). Objective quality of life is about fulfilling the societal and cultural demands for material wealth, social status and physical wellbeing (Nordenfelt 1993;Egedy 2009), while subjective quality of life is about feeling good and being satisfied with things in general (Argile 1996). Objective quality of life is about fulfilling the societal and cultural demands for material wealth, social status and physical wellbeing (Nordenfelt 1993;Egedy 2009), while subjective quality of life is about feeling good and being satisfied with things in general (Argile 1996).…”

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Development of the Settlement Network in the Central European Countries

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Land Use Changes in Peri-Urban Open Spaces of Small Towns in Eastern Hungary

2022

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Changes in land use were studied in 2 km wide peri-urban open spaces of seven small Hungarian towns as part of a RENATUR Interreg Europe (2019–2023) project. The aim of the project is to present best practices related to the sustainable and wise use of the peri-urban open spaces of small European towns. The rate and tendencies of conversion from one land use type to another were evaluated on the basis of a comparison of Corine Land Cover and Land Cover Change databases from 1990, 2000 and 2018. Land use changes in the study areas in different time periods were studied for which the Corine categories were aggregated. Subsequently, there were field verification surveys carried out between March and June of 2021. Most significant changes—due to the significant increase of built-up areas—were found in the case of the towns that were developed to form the suburbs of Debrecen, the core settlement of their region with a population of 200,000. In the case of settlements further away from the major city, the population is either stagnating or decreasing, and the size of built-up areas hardly increases. In the case of cities that are surrounded by high-quality chernozem soils with profitable agriculture, large-scale arable lands have become dominant in the border zones of the settlements, as the spatial extent of gardens, orchards and grasslands has decreased. Highly diverse and mosaic land use (dominated by small plots) is not characteristic anywhere.

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Strategic and Socio-Economic Implications of Urban Regeneration in Hungary

Cited by 3 publications

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Suburbanization within City Limits in Hungary—A Challenge for Environmental and Social Sustainability

Suburbanization within City Limits in Hungary—A Challenge for Environmental and Social Sustainability

Development of the Settlement Network in the Central European Countries

Land Use Changes in Peri-Urban Open Spaces of Small Towns in Eastern Hungary

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