In my paper presented at the ENHR Istanbul Conference (SUB-CENTRES OR EDGE CITIES?
– socio-spatial and economic transformation of Southwestern Budapest agglomeration)
I analysed the socioeconomic developments of one of the fastest changing Budapest
agglomeration area from rather a larger scale point of view. The recent and ongoing
qualitative and quantitative analyses – namely, interviews with local stakeholders,
residents and a survey of 1,200 interviewees in the settlements of the area – enables
us to accomplish now a more in-depth scrutiny of the processes and to give a more
thorough and detailed description. Micro-tendencies in, and patterns of, movements,
the causes thereof, both in case of households and enterprises will be accounted for,
as well as the different approaches and actions taken by institutional actors and
the rationale behind are being mapped and will presented at the conference. The results
will be placed and analysed within the theoretical framework presented in Istanbul,
distinguishing global and local trends in the transformation of the edges of cities
and the transition from a monocentric to a polycentric urban fabric within a large
metropolis area of Eastern Central Europe.
