Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 5. (Budapest, 2010)
Recenziók
516 Abstracts ILDIKÓ LAKI Forms of socialist industrial town. The place of Százhalombatta among industrial towns The focus of this review is a discussion of Százhalombatta. It explores the virtues and the industrial activity of the town through the perspective of tradition and regeneration. Százhalombatta is unique among Hungarian industrial towns, indeed Hungarian towns in general, in having retained the role and function of an industrial town, and thus providing sustainable development, defining the environment of the inhabitants and affording them a living. The heyday of the town was in the 1970s and 80s, when the major industrial developments took place, the town acquired its character, its population increased, and various social spaces and living spaces came into being. This all stemmed from the political decision to locate in the outskirts of the town the MOL oil refinery, and the Dunamenti power plant. The two companies behind these have been, and continue to be, responsible for sustaining the town of Százhalombatta. The town has thus developed and maintained its competitiveness, with a changing image, an innovative local society and a dominant role in the region. BARNABÁS VAJDA Some aspects of development of the Czechoslovakian town of Dunajská Streda in the years 1950-1960 Czechoslovakian socialist urbanisation (first in the fifties, and then from 1970 onwards) was of dubious benefit for Dunajská Streda, a town with a Hungarian majority in south-western Slovakia (Dunaszerdahely in Hungarian), because decisions stemming from political and economical considerations did not help the town’s urban development. The lack of development and the damage caused, however, did not seem significant during the great social processes of the time. A historical judgement of this issue must take into account the fundamental
