Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze and assess direction and intensity of changes in structure of activities in urban settlements in Serbia with more than 20,000 inhabitants, to determine the tendencies of that process, as well as the moment or the period of achieving their equilibrium structure of development activities. In addition, this paper defines the regularities of functional urban areas changes depending on their demographic size, on one hand, and depending on the period of exercising their convergent - uniform structure, on the other hand. Results of the analysis were used for testing the hypotheses put forward in the context of previous research related to the period of most intense industrialization - 60s and 70s of the last century. While in this paper, for comparison, that period of time was covered, the focus of the research refers to the period 1981-2011.
Highlights
Population distribution and its activity are a result of the space potential, natural and socio-economic influences, and a result of polarization in fluences of centers in the network of settlements in the study area
Activity sectors relations were the basis for defining numerous methods that are used in urban-geographical studies in the first half of the twentieth century in developed countries, and in the period after the Second World War in Serbia, given that half of the twentieth century is time of beginning of a well-known deagrarization and industrialization process in the region
Convergent evolution in the structure of activities in medium and large urban settlements, which is characterized by a tendency for establishing and maintaining fairly uniform relations of employment in secondary sector, on one side, and tertiaryquaternary sector, on the other side, is evident in all tested urban areas
Summary
Аbstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze and assess direction and intensity of changes in structure of activities in urban settlements in Serbia with more than 20,000 inhabitants, to determine the tendencies of that process, as well as the moment or the period of achieving their equilibrium structure of development activities. This paper defines the regularities of functional urban areas changes depending on their demographic size, on one hand, and depending on the period of exercising their convergent - uniform structure, on the other hand. Results of the analysis were used for testing the hypotheses put forward in the context of previous research related to the period of most intense industrialization - 60s and 70s of the last century. For comparison, that period of time was covered, the focus of the research refers to the period 1981-2011
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