POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL URBANISATION. REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Journal Title: The Annals of Valahia University of Târgoviste, Geographical Series - Year 2007, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
The industrial development policy with emphasis on the heavy industry, of steel and machine-building branches in the main, was a characteristic feature of the socialist-type political systems of Eastern Europe. Its notable consequence for the settlements system translated into forcible urbanisation, but only insofar as quantity was concerned (artificial multiplication of towns and of the town population). As industrial units set up, some villages, functioning as dormitory settlements, would be turned into towns: other would be integrated into the urban administrative territory; on the other hand, some dominantly rural residential districts would be attached to the town and a new type of settlements, connected with the construction of big industrial estates, would be built on empty terrain. As a result, a new type of town-integrated settlements would emerge, but the quality of their urban-type infrastructure falls far below that of traditional centres. Their individual character is marked by a fluctuating evolution, in the majority of cases much closer to countryside, that is, decrease of population and growing vulnerability connected with the units they had been engendered by. In view of this above, we would say that these settlements, now part of the town, represent a distinct, intermediary category between the urban and the rural system and should be designated as such.
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Radu SAGEATA, Marcela SAGEATA
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