Spaces and places in Central and Eastern Europe

Titel: Spaces and places in Central and Eastern Europe : historical trends and perspectives of regional development / Gyula Horváth
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Veröffentlicht: London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2015
Umfang: XXI, 250 S. : graph. Darst., Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Regions and cities ; 77
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ISBN: 9780415727747 ; 9781315852058
Buchumschlag
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  • List of Figures
  • p. xviii
  • List of Tables
  • p. xx
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • The system of objectives of spatial development
  • p. 1
  • Regional policy in Europe
  • p. 4
  • Changing regional structures in Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 7
  • Target and method
  • p. 9
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. 11
  • Part I
  • Regional development: processes, frameworks and driving forces
  • p. 15
  • 1
  • Regional transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 17
  • Macro-economic position
  • p. 17
  • Historical trends in the twentieth century
  • p. 23
  • Socio-economic disparities between regions
  • p. 32
  • 2
  • Modernisation of regional development policy
  • p. 46
  • Emerging regional policy
  • p. 46
  • Shortcomings of current spatial policy
  • p. 52
  • Subsidiarty and decentralization - the requirement of institutional capacity
  • p. 54
  • Development planning for the period between 2007 and 2013
  • p. 57
  • 3
  • Regions as frameworks of power
  • p. 61
  • Interemediate-level regional development tasks
  • p. 61
  • The formal change in regional administration
  • p. 64
  • The development planning regions
  • p. 68
  • The dilemma of the regional centres
  • p. 71
  • Is Eastern and Central Europe unitary or decentralised
  • p. 75
  • 4
  • Towards a knowledge based regional development
  • p. 81
  • Intellectual potential and regional development
  • p. 81
  • The organisation of scientific institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, 1950-1990
  • p. 85
  • The impact of the systemic change on the regional structure of R&D
  • p. 87
  • Regional inequalities of intellectual resources in the Western Balkans
  • p. 92
  • Part II
  • National characteristics of regional development and policy: country case studies
  • p. 101
  • 5
  • From a country to regions? The natural history of East German regional development
  • p. 103
  • The German Mezzogiorno?
  • p. 103
  • Historical pre-conditions-spatial structure of the German Empire
  • p. 105
  • The Sovietisation of Central Germany
  • p. 108
  • The regional impacts of the collapse of the GDR
  • p. 114
  • The price and impacts of reintegration
  • p. 118
  • Regional subsidies
  • p. 120
  • Two driving forces of sustainable development: industry and R&D
  • p. 123
  • 6
  • Regional transformation and fragmentation in Russia
  • p. 130
  • Spatial aspects of the power structure and economics development of the Soviet Union
  • p. 130
  • The regional portrait of the new Russia
  • p. 148
  • Regional social problems
  • p. 153
  • Deficiencies in regional development policy
  • p. 159
  • Fundamenrals of the new regional development strategy
  • p. 165
  • 7
  • Regionalism in a unitary state: decline of competitiveness of the Hungarian regional development policy
  • p. 172
  • Historical antecedents
  • p. 172
  • A one-pole country
  • p. 176
  • Building up of the institutions of regional development policy
  • p. 180
  • Possible future images of the regional tier
  • p. 189
  • The National Development Plan
  • p. 192
  • Part II
  • Inter-regional co-operation in Central Europe
  • p. 201
  • 8
  • Working communities and Euroregions
  • p. 203
  • Attempts before systemic change Alps-Adriatic Working Community
  • p. 203
  • The Carpathian Basin as an economic area
  • p. 209
  • Declining areas
  • p. 217
  • 9
  • Conclusions
  • p. 237
  • Index
  • p. 248