A Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár évkönyve 23. 1996 (Debrecen, 1996)
Tanulmányok - Balogh István: A városrendezés első kísérlete Debrecenben (1887-1897)
Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár Évkönyve XXIII 167 network and settlement structures, specified the establishment of healthy, bright dwellings built of tough materials and provided with a fire proof roof. The building of outhouses beside the street was forbidden, the handling of waste and manure was regulated, and provision was also made for the construction of pavements for pedestrians. Starting from the 1890-ies the classes supporting the civil demands, from all quarters urged the modern development and improvement of the city. For a large part the plan for preparation of the first city planning regulations was raised due to their agitation. They urged large scale street planning, the construction of an inner ring road, assisting traffic movement and reflecting the big city exterior, with well laid out streets and squares. There was no opportunity to realise the plans, partly for financial reasons, and partly because the fundamental establishments for existence of a city are (sewer, water mains, road surfacing and street lighting also) had not yet been develped. Besides this, outside the historically developed inner city and suburbs, one section of the one-time vineyards, in spite of every prohibition, had started to be built-in with dwellings, without any form of planning. In spite of the prohibition, and later partial regulation by the leaders of the city, development of housing sites also started on the vacant ground lying between the vineyards. Taking account of this circumstance, in 1893 the city's engineering office prepared the city’s first lay-out plan, with the aim of making it possible to keep to the uniform city planning and building regulations within the widely set limits. It was not possible to finalise the plan up to the first world-war, nevertheless during the later years some of its conceptions were taken into consideration.
