"Artificial towns" in the 21st century
Subtitle: social polarisation in the new town regions of East-Central Europe
By: edited by Viktória Szirmai ; translated by György Váradi
Publisher: Centre for Social Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9789638302526
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: New towns
Description: The central question of this book is that whether the development of new towns was the possibility of a new urban development model or an unfulfilled promise. Moreover, whether a special town type, different from any other town types, was created in the case of new towns in East-Central Europe, including Hungary. We want to answer this central question not by the method based on going back to historical traditions. The original town plans and urban planning doctrines have never been realised, they were always compromised partly due to momentary political interests, and partly to short-term economic, mainly cost-saving aspects. The book describes the current trends, today's new town types and other urban models with their differences and similarities. Our aim is to find the still existing relecancies of the new town's character, to reveal what the new towns of East-Central Europe are like today, whether they offer something else, something unique campared to other spatial formations, something that may explain why many people like, can and want to live in them and this could serve as a basis for building the future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-472) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Theoretical Background; title: European New Towns in the 21st Century: An Introduction / Viktória Szirmai; title: "Socialist" New Towns' Development: The Formation Period / Viktória Szirmai; title: The Main Characteristics of East-Central European Urbanisation Processes / Viktória Szirmai; title: Social-Spatial Mechanisms and Urban Changes in Hungary / Viktória Szirmai; title: Urban Development in Poland, from the Socialist City to the Post-Socialist and Neoliberal City / Grzegorz We̜cławowicz; title: Developmental Changes in Slovakia's Socio-Spatial Situation / Peter Gajdoš; title: Part II: Socio-Spatial Polarisation Mechanisms in the East-Central European New Town Regions - The Case Studies; title: Social Polarisation in Tatabánya and its Region / Júlia Schuchmann; title: Social and Economic Transition in Dunaújváros and its Region / Nóra Baranyai; title: Social and Economic Transformation in Komló and its Region / Levente Halász; title: Economic Restructuring and Social Polarisation in Kazincbarcika ans its Region / Márton Berki; title: The Former "New Socialist City" in the Neoliberal Condition - The Case of Tychy in Poland / Grzegorz We̜cławowicz and Dagmara Mliczyńska-Hajda; title: Nová Dubnica and it Region: The Slovak Case Study / Peter Gajdoš and Katarína Moravanská; title: Part III: Postitions of New Town Regions in the Urban Network - Similarities and Differences; title: Social Polarisation Mechanisms in the Hungarian New Town Regions / Adrienne Csizmady and Zoltán Ferencz; title: Post-Socialist New Towns in the Urban Network / János Rechnitzer, Judit Berkes, and Ádám Páthy; title: The Hungarian Old and New Towns - The Results of the Comparative Analyses / Adrienne Csizmady; title: Urban Structures and Architectural Specificities in the Post-Socialist New Towns / Kornélia Kissfazekas; title: Part IV: Conclusions; title: The Main Social Polarisation Features of the East-Central European New Town Regions / Viktória Szirmai.