A szellemi tőke szerepe a várossá nyilvánításokban
The Role of Human Capital in the Formal Urbanisation of Hungary

Summary/Abstract: One of the most influential spatial processes of settlement building in Hungary over the last two decades has been formal urbanisation, which has roughly doubled the number of towns between 1989 and 2014. Receiving a town ranking is only an administrative procedure, although the public often makes a mystery of town ranking. The pool of villages competing, and towns receiving such a ranking serve to present a heterogeneous group of settlements with unique characters. Some of them have been waiting for such ‘progress’ for decades and the recent legislature has provided them with an opportunity now – while others’ massive developments have been fuelled by the forces of suburbanisation. The authors here make an attempt to introduce the process of formal urbanisation, and there is then a quantitative and qualitative investigation of those human resources and cultural infrastructure which could have been adequate bases both for settlements’ recent development that led to the achievement of town ranking; and it also looks to their likely future progress.

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