Veszter Gábor: Villas in Budapest. From the compromise of 1867 to the beginning of World War II - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

The buildings flanking Városligeti fasor also underwent important changes. The initially large plots measuring at least 4300 square metres were divided; they remained building plots for villas on the Városligeti fasor side, while unbroken rows of housing units with large back gardens and opening on either Nagy János utca (later Benczúr utca) or Damjanich utca were built behind them. The summer residences standing on villa plots were pulled down, and up-to-date family villas were erected instead; in some cases (if the pre-existing summer residence had been built sufficiently far from the street) old summer residences were left to stand where they were and new apartment villas were built in front of them. (A few neo-Classical villas thus actually survived for a very long time, sometimes dozens of years, in the seclusion of back gardens.) Apartment villas also gradually appeared after the turn of the century in Városligeti fasor. The size of the building plots being significantly larger, their dimensions were also more important than on Andrássy út; three-storey apartment villas containing one large flat on each floor became a common sight on Városligeti fasor, but two-storey villas housing six families were not exceptional either.

A few large villas were built around the City Park on Hermina út and Stefánia út around the turn of the century, such as the French Renaissance style villa of Samu Roheim (Hermina út 45, Manó Pollák, 1899-1900). The size of the rooms in this house was adjusted to higher pretensions, as their average area exceeded forty square metres, and three rooms downstairs actually measured more than sixty square metres. (Prime minister Count István Tisza was living here when an attempt was made upon his life on 31 October 1918.)

Some more villas were built in the first decades of the century in certain side streets of the Zugló area such as Szabó József utca, Ilka utca and Izsó utca.

The villa of grammar school teacher Dezső Malonyay (Izsó utca 5, Béla Lajta, 1905-06 - transformed) was built according to plans resulting from an original approach of Hungarian endeavours. Its owner was a member of the middle-class intelligentsia who wanted a house of his own because he had a precise conception of the surroundings in which he wished to live. He wanted to create his own environment, with luxury being, as it appears, secondary in his eyes. Malonyay was not a

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