Zádor Anna: Neoclassical Pest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

Lloyd s Palace

brace these responsibilities. This served to multiply their real power, although there was no real economic infrastructure or advanced administration to support such development. The changes were met by a will to create plenty, and even more importantly, to create something essential. All this, of course, applies to Pest in particular, which wanted to join such long established capitals as Vienna or Prague at any price. It has been said many times that Pest’s rapid development occurred at the expense of the provincial towns. However, if we consider the number of towns in which county halls were built (Kaposvár, Makó, Debrecen and Balassagyarmat) and

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