Different Aspects of Regional Development in East-Central Europe
Journal Title: Romanian Review of Regional Studies - Year 2014, Vol 10, Issue 2
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore and analyze the main characteristics of East-Central Europe's spatial structure, including its changes during the recent years. In many territorial researches, there is an intention to define different types of regions and to establish territorial regularities, create models, etc. In this case, we analysed the regions of East-Central Europe based on their comprehensive socio-economic data and described the most important characteristics of the spatial structure of this macroregion from different perspectives. Some results show that the social and economic core areas are highly separated from each other and the development "image" of East-Central Europe has remained the same viewing from the aspects of bigger, homogenous areas, but became more mosaic with the appearance of some separated and improving regions, strengthening the model of the "Bunch of Grapes", not the "Boomerang". Other results show that it is difficult to create a spatial structure model for this macroregion, because the results may depend on the viewpoints.
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PÁL SZABÓ, MÁTÉ FARKAS
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