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Volume XIII |
Human and economic geography

Development and use of public space – the case of Saint Stephen square of Szeged

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Abstract: Public space development has got an increasing role in the urban development movements. These parts of the city were always important in history and today they are more and more often analyzed in scientific researches. In the Western countries (mainly in North America and Western Europe) public space development is highly detailed and really longsighted. In Hungary this kind of method started to be used later and has not been so sophisticated and matured yet. This paper presents the development of Saint Stephen square of Szeged, Hungary. Besides the development, it also presents what kind of methods are appropriate for analyzing a square. Saint Stephen square is a good example to illustrate the changes related to the rehabilitation because it has been a degraded but popular place and after the development it has become a really attractive but not so lively square. Its main characteristic was a flea market, which gave the essence to it, but after the renewal it has become much smaller; due to some other changes, it could no longer function as before. This movement caused the biggest impairment of the place and some other negative changes also emerged.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2014.251.iDates:
Received: 06-05-2013 Accepted: 30-11-2013 Printed: 02-06-2014 Online: 08-08-2014
Affiliations:
  • 1 Department of Economic and Social Geography, University of Szeged, 6722 Egyetem utca 2., Szeged, Hungary
Corresponding author:
  • vedredikata@gmail.com
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Acknowledgements: The publication is supported by the European Union and co-funded by the European Social Fund. Project title: “Broadening the knowledge base and supporting the long term professional sustainability of the Research University Centre of Excellence at the University of Szeged by ensuring the rising generation of excellent scientists.” Project number: TÁMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0012.
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Volume XIII |
Regional geography

The impact of the community development on electoral turnout in rural areas at the parliamentary elections (2008), Romania

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Abstract: In the countries with a consolidated democracy, but also in post-communist Romania, the turnout has experienced a downward evolution. The difference lies in the fact that while in Western European countries the turnout is higher as the economic and educational level is higher, in Romanian during the last general elections (2008), the turnout was higher in rural areas (traditionally more precariously from the economic and educational point of view than the urban areas). In this way, the article strives to identify to what extent there is a causal relationship between the development index of the rural localities and the turnout, the descriptive statistics highlighting a relevant aspect: there is a higher turnout in the less developed counties than in the developed ones.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2014.272.iDates:
Received: 01-10-2013 Accepted: 15-01-2014 Printed: 02-06-2014 Online: 08-08-2014
Affiliations:
  • 1 University of South-East Europe Lumina, Bucharest
  • 2 University of Bucharest, PhD in Political Science
Corresponding author:
  • giugal.aurelian@fspub.unibuc.ro
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Volume XII |
Regional geography

The change of the urban network along the middle and lower Danube during transition

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Abstract: The economy and urban development of the riparian regions have been partly determined by the Danube as an inland navigation line (e.g. Dunaújváros, Smederovo, Lom, Calaraşi etc.), or the economy of these towns has been based on the other features of the river (e.g. Komárom/Komarno, Nyergesújfalu, Paks, Orsova, Vidin, Kozloduy etc.). In the aftermaths of the collapse of the communist regimes and the Soviet Union and the blockade of the traffic due to the crisis of ex-Yugoslavia, the role of the Danubian transport line was changed radically (Hardi 2012). Due to these changes and the emergence of the new economy, the function and situation of these towns transformed in the last two decades. Some of them could use the new possibilities, but many of them lost their economic basis and population, becoming a peripheral region or town. Our paper gives a comparative study about the features of the Danube towns, and characterizes the typical development ways of the riparian towns. The present study summarizes the experiences of an academic exchange programme among Romanian, Bulgarian and Hungarian institutions.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.140.dDates:
Received: 06-05-2013 Accepted: 20-07-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
Affiliations:
  • 1 Institute for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Győr, Hungary
  • 2 National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 3 Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • hardit@rkk.hu
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Volume XII |
Regional geography

Factorial analysis of the territorial disparities on the southern part of the Romanian – Hungarian border

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Abstract: During the socialist era along the Hungarian-Romanian border region there emerged a significant developmental gap which separated a relative more advanced Hungarian side from a backward Romanian one. Using a quantitative methodology, we try to identify territorial disparities of these times on a lower spatial scale – namely on the level of communes – in order to highlight the presumably lagging-behind status of a narrower border strip. According to our hypothesis, this peripheral strip has a disadvantageous status mainly because its increased isolation. The factorial analysis confirmed this fact on the Hungarian side, however it was disproved on the Romanian side because the presence of the large cities and basic infrastructure networks on the proximity of the border. Thus, the paper underlines empirically former conception related to the geographical periphery regions along the border line.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.148.dDates:
Received: 06-05-2013 Accepted: 23-11-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
Affiliations:
  • 1 Department of Geography in Hungarian Language, Babeş-Bolyai University, str. Clinicilor 5-7, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • enagy@geografie.ubbcluj.ro
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Volume XII |
Human and economic geography

The impact and importance of return migration in East Central Europe

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Abstract: Return migration might be a key factor for development in sending regions, especially in East Central Europe. In 2004, the enlargement of the European Union affected a mass labour migration from post-socialist countries towards Western European regions. Among rules of the Union this East-West migration has become more than brain-drain, beside high-skilled migrants, lower skilled ones also leave their country of origin. This paper focused on common characteristics of migrants from East Central European countries. During research I have used results of an online survey among migrants and made interviews with returned Hungarian migrants. Though sending countries make efforts towards re-attracting migrants, without stable macro-factors their return might be uncertain. According to my results, though each country has its own profile, in some cases, especially Hungarian and Polish migrants have common characteristics in terms of motivation of emigration and type of work abroad.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2067-4635.2013.160.dDates:
Received: 06-05-2013 Accepted: 23-11-2013 Printed: 24-12-2013 Online: 30-01-2014
Affiliations:
  • 1 Faculty of Science and Informatics, Department of Economic and Social Geography, University of Szeged, 6722 Szeged, Egyetem street 2., Szeged, Hungary
Corresponding author:
  • ladosg@geo.u-szeged.hu
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Acknowledgements: This research was highly supported by the results of the online survey of Re-Turn project, a CENTRAL-EUROPE financed programme, which applied questionnaires on approximately 1913 potential and returned migrants from 7 East Central European countries in 2012.
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