In my paper presented at the ENHR Istanbul Conference (SUB-CENTRES OR EDGE
CITIES? - socio-spatial and economic transformation of South-Western Budapest
agglomeration) I analysed the socio-economic 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 1,600 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.
