Ságvári Ágnes (szerk.): Budapest. The History of a Capital (Budapest, 1975)
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XXXV Excerpts from Government Resolution No. 1005/1971 approving the general plan of development for Budapest and the environs February 16th, 1971 The Hungarian Revolutionary Government of Workers and Peasants has discussed the general plan of development for Budapest and the environs, and has passed the following resolution: 1. The development plan covering the area of Budapest, and for the area of Budapest together with its environs, included in the relevant sections of the general development plan, are hereby approved by the government. The Executive Committee of the Council of Budapest is at the same time instructed to draw up an amendment to the Town Development Regulations of Budapest based on the revised general development plan and the town and village development provisions of the National Building Regulations, and to publish this amendment as a decree of the Council. 2. Based on the relevant sections of the general development plan the Government has resolved the following in connection with the territorial aspects of the development of the capital and its environs: a. the purpose of the general development plan is to provide a framework for the development of Budapest and its environs which, giving proper attention to community interest, will serve as the foundation for a well-balanced town-planning project, with the full coordination of the different areas—by branches; b. the general development plan shall apply to the administrative area of Budapest and the areas of the following 44 villages and towns which shall be regarded, with their inclusion in the capital, as one conurbation; ... c. the general development plan of Budapest and environs will be based on the anticipated situation at the turn of the century when the number of the inhabitants of Budapest will have increased to about 2,250,000 and those in the environs to about 500,000. ... 3. The fundamental, primary task in Budapest and the environs will be to liquidate the housing shortage regarded quantitatively. By increasing the number of rooms, available by building a greater variety of flats with better amenities the housing shortage in qualitative terms will also be gradually eased. To increase the number of homes a concentrated effort will be made to expand the use of up-to-date methods of building and to carry out the major part of the housing programme. Within the long-term concept of development—with due regard to the existing housing situation and the social demands involved—consideration will be given to schemes to use the peripherial open spaces around Budapest to build homes during the Fourth and Fifth Five-Year Plans. The reconstruction of built-up areas on the confines of the city must however be included in housing projects from the beginning of the Fourth Five-Year Plan, and continue for some ten to fifteen years. The reconstruction of the obsolete downtown sections of the city will also be started during the Fourth Five-Year Plan, and carried out so as to form the major section of the concentrated housing plan following the Fifth Five- Year Plan. More parks and gardens will be provided in the course of downtown reconstruction. Modem types of architecture (blocks of freehold flats, terraced houses, etc.) will be provided where private housing is concerned. 132
