Mezei István: Urban development in Slovakia (Pécs-Somorja, 2010)

Tartalom

CONTENTS

List of Tables.............................................................................................7

List of Figures..........................................................................................11

Foreword...................................................................................................13

1. Introduction..........................................................................................15

2. Towns in Felvidék (Upper Hungary) before 1918............................19

2. 1 The towns of Felvidék (Upper Hungary) according

to their population .................................................................24

2. 2 Ethnic composition of towns in Felvidék (Upper Hungary) ......27

2. 3 Occupational composition of towns in Felvidék

(Upper Hungary) ......................................................................32

3. The settlement structure of Slovakia...............................................37

3. 1 Factors forming settlements in Slovakia................................37

3. 2 The settlement system of Slovakia.......................................39

3. 3 Urban structure in Slovakia......................................................47

3. 4 The most important steps in the (Czecho)Slovak

conquest ..................................................................................50

3. 4. 1 Census as a means of statistical Slovakization ...........50

3. 4. 2 Towns as the centres of Slovakization ..........................55

3. 4. 3 Subordination of the economy to Czech interests ........61

3. 5 The role of the first independent Slovak state in town

planning ...................................................................................63

3. 5. 1 Bratislava, the old-new capital city .................................63

3. 6 Town planning in (Czecho)Slovakia .........................................68

3. 6. 1 Towns as industrial centres.............................................68

3. 6. 2 Towns as the symbols of Slovak grandeur ....................76

4. Towns in Slovakia after 1993 ..........................................................87

4. 1 The effect of geopolitics on the urban network......................94

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