Patterns of urban development in Budapest after 1989

Kocsis, János Balázs

doi:10.1556/044.2015.29.1-2.1

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“…The suburbanization and urban sprawl around Budapest have been extensively examined in the recent scientific literature using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods across various disciplines. These studies cover a wide range of topics from general ones [64][65][66][67][68][69] to concerning specific aspects, such as spatial decentralization [70], compactness [71], socio-economic segregation [72], power relations [73], regional planning [74], suburban creativity [61,75], suburban communities [76,77], suburban peripheries [78], post-Fordist polycentric spatial structure [79], effects of COVID [80], and inner-peripheral [81] and ecological [82,83] sustainability. Only the crucial characteristics needed for comprehending the subsequent analyses will be outlined according to recent accounts [61,69].…”

Section: Suburban Growth In the Budapest Metropolitan Region And Törö...mentioning

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Suburban Sustainability in Budapest Agglomeration – the Case of Törökbálint

Kocsis,

Tomay

2024

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The rapid growth of the metropolitan area around Budapest has led to increased traffic, infrastructure problems, and social and economic issues in the suburbs, making the sustainability of these areas a key topic in professional and public discussions. The article aims to explore the intricacies of sustainability in a suburban town by utilizing the Smart Growth framework, which is highly pertinent in Hungary. The focus of scientific and public discussions revolves around urban planning to curb urban sprawl and enhance public transportation usage. The analysis concentrates on compactness, commute, and community, utilizing quantitative survey data between 2018 and 2023. The findings demonstrate that the town under analysis is dense regarding common and regular services but depends significantly on the central area for more specialized services. The local community is tightly interconnected and shows no evidence of atomization. Commuting patterns show that polycentricity leads to new spatial connections and a growing reliance on cars, even while the quantity of vehicles is still growing. The results indicate that assessing the sustainability of suburbs may not be universally applicable, and examination should be conducted at the town level. Secondly, the sustainability of suburban areas may be distinct from the sustainability of denser, urbanized places.

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Section: Suburban Growth In the Budapest Metropolitan Region And Törö...mentioning

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Suburban Sustainability in Budapest Agglomeration – the Case of Törökbálint

Kocsis,

Tomay

2024

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“…They are part of the "typological" buildings that follow the patterns of the historical urban morphology replicated in the inner city (see Figure 9). This category includes buildings that have been renovated to fit the new urban context while maintaining their aesthetic identity, modularity, and materiality [26]. • T3-Traditional historical building (not renovated)…”

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Fostering Urban Cohesion: Exploring Morphological Adaptations in Budapest’s IX District through a Typological Survey

Silva Dantas,

Nagy,

Szövényi

2023

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In response to the imperative to enhance urban structures for global sustainability and improved quality of life, the European Union has diligently established parameters and policies fostering urban cohesion and territorial integration. Embracing the guidelines conceived by the European Commission, this research presents a case study examining morphological conditions in the IX District of Budapest, Hungary—a strategically chosen area undergoing renovation. The primary goals of the intervention are to address social and spatial segregation, enhance urban performance, and promote global resilience. Employing a Typological Survey methodology, an in-depth assessment was conducted and translated into a Geographic Information System (GIS) database. Consequently, the morphological analysis successfully identified five distinct types of elements composing the urban structure of the studied area. This analysis revealed a highly heterogeneous constitution characterized by dynamic and continuous changes, reflecting the evolving nature of the urban landscape. Findings indicate noteworthy improvements in the performance and quality of public spaces while preserving the historical morphological characteristics that have long defined this area and its urban landscape.

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“…Besides these two cities there are only smaller centres with less than a hundred thousand inhabitants (Gajdoš, Moravanská 2013). These disparities of the urban network in uence the directions of internal migration as well: in Hungary (Kocsis 2015) the main target of domestic migration is the capital city with its agglomerations, and the population of some smaller regional centres is also growing, but to a much lesser extent (it is also true for Slovakia, despite the double-pole character). In Romania, besides Bucharest there are similarly signi cant destinations of migration to di erent regional centres of the country (Cluj, Timișoara, Iași, Brașov, Sibiu, Oradea).…”

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Differences and similarities in the expansion of suburban built-up areas around the different city regions of three Central European countries

Hardi

2022

TéT

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Examining the urban sprawl around middle-size cities in Hungary and Central Europe the rural change and suburbanization can be characterized by residential out-migration from cities and at the same time by immigration from the rural areas. These processes have intensibed in the former socialist countries after the 2000s and a number of problems have not been addressed, which have become apparent during the eighties and nineties in Western countries. A fast urban sprawl took place with a low level of special control and planning but under the pressure of economic and financial development. The rate of spatial growth often exceeds the rate of population growth, it even occurs in the absence of population growth. In Central European countries, the main destination for migration is the capital cities and their suburbs, therefore suburbanisation studies focus on these areas. However, our aim is to focus on regional centres and their agglomerations, comparing them to capital cities and rural areas. The most dynamic and new urbanisation processes are taking place in urban agglomerations. The phenomena observed in these countries, especially in regional cities, have no historical precedent, but are a novelty from both a social and an economic point of view. The paper concentrates on the urbanisation tendencies of three post-socialist countries – Slovakia, Hungary and Romania –, on the basis of the expansion of the impervious surfaces and the change in the number of the population. In each country the capital cities, the areas of the regional centres, and more remote rural areas are analysed separately. The goal is to examine how much these countries fit into world tendencies, and to see the differences in the density of inhabitants in areas touched differently by urbanisation, among the countries and compared to world tendencies. It is examined in all three countries that have gone through similar economic and political transitions what differences are caused by the diverse historical, geographical and settlement hierarchy endowments at the time of the development and migration boom following the world economic crisis of 2008. It is hard to detect what role the economic crisis played in this, but it is certain that the crisis led to a significant fall, which was followed by a development with quite different directions in the cities, urban fringes and rural areas in the surveyed countries. The flow into cities seems to have accelerated, concerning in the first place capital city regions and the edges of regional centres. Besides population movements, the expansion of built-up areas is much faster than that, especially in less densely populated areas where the dynamism of these was outstandingly high between 2012 and 2018. This may have several negative consequences. In areas in the vicinity of cities zones of such high population density may emerge which may lead to societal problems later.

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Patterns of urban development in Budapest after 1989

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Suburban Sustainability in Budapest Agglomeration – the Case of Törökbálint

Suburban Sustainability in Budapest Agglomeration – the Case of Törökbálint

Fostering Urban Cohesion: Exploring Morphological Adaptations in Budapest’s IX District through a Typological Survey

Differences and similarities in the expansion of suburban built-up areas around the different city regions of three Central European countries

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