PRIJEDLOG ODREĐENJA SREDNJIH GRADOVA U HRVATSKOJ
A PROPOSITION FOR DEFINING MIDDLE TOWNS IN CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: ln modern countries throughout the world and Europe there is a confusing definition of towns and urban spaces; i. e. there are no internationally accepted criteria for singling out a settlement and giving it the status of a town. In the Republic of Croatia, according to varied criteria, from 69 to 204 settlements have had the status of town or settlement with urban features in the past forty years. In 1997 there were 122 settlements with legal town status in Croatia, followed by continuing aspirations of numerous local communities to increase that number up to 150 or even 200 towns. Obviously, the above-mentioned suggests it is not quite clear which c1usterof towns should the sub-c1usterof "middle Croatian towns" be selected from, whether the present 122 towns, or a group of those aspired after, or perhaps one based on scientific analysis (and accepted by law). There are several mathematical procedures for calculating or defining "middle", but the initial condition for all is a precisely defined total group, cluster or number. Bearing in mind all that has been said, this study commences with the probable or optimal basic cluster of approximately 160 towns and small towns (settlementswith urban features) in the Republic of Croatia (around the year 2000), and accordingly proposes a sub-c1usterof "middle Croatian towns".

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