The Development of a Market Town and its Market Places in the Hungarian Great Plain. Kecskemét, a Case Study
The Development of a Market Town and its Market Places in the Hungarian Great Plain. Kecskemét, a Case Study

Summary/Abstract: This paper interprets and discusses specific aspects of urban development, as urban function, role and hierarchy of the changing network of settlements in relation to Kecskemét, a typical market town in the Great Plain Region in Hungary. The discussion is aimed to provide a broad perspective through the centuries to understand the key elements in the town’s development. Beside the general aspects of urbanization, the development of the market places will be reviewed, in the context of the transforming townscape in the late medieval-early modern period.

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