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Shrinking cities in Central and Eastern Europe
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International Symposium "Coping with City Shrinkage and Demographic Change - Lessons from around the Globe"
30.-31.03.2006 Dresden, Germany
Maros Finka / Dagmar Petrikova, University of Bratislava (Slovakia) |
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Shrinking Cities in Central and Eastern Europe
The development of the settlement system in Central European countries is influenced by the combination of the long-term decreasing births rates, suburbanisation processes, transformation of the society from the industrial to post-industrial information society, including the transformation towards knowledge economy, change of the value systems and lifestyles. This has important consequences in form of the selective development of the settlement units at regional and local levels.
A part of this development are the shrinking processes in many traditional urban centres, mostly demonstrated on the development of their population but including different aspects which have to be taken into account and researched. The situation of urban centres in new EU member states in the Central Europe has several specific features and frame conditions accelerating and modifying the processes of settlement development concerning the urbanisation, suburbanisation, desurbanisation and reurbanisation phases and especially the shrinking process of the cities.
The interdependences between shrinking process, social security systems, social capital, economy and the labour market, public finance and quality of urban environment are in the transitive regions very complex and of bilateral causality. |
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Letzte Änderung: 03.05.2006 |
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