Abstract
International online peer-reviewed open-access journal offers a possibility for the international community of professionals working in the fields of regional and rural development or tourism to exchange their ideas and research results or practical achievements as it publishes results of both theoretical and applied research in these fields.
Highlights
The analysis of the rural-urban dichotomy, the diverging social characteristics of these distinct types of spatial organization have long attracted academic interest
Settlement network analyses have put the urbanrural dichotomy at centre-stage in descriptive and model studies alike (e.g., Kresl, 2012; Woods & Heley, 2017)
The settlement network is characterized by relative stability and long-term evolution, which allows for the conceptualisation of the totality of settlements as the ensemble of spatially differentiated social groups
Summary
The analysis of the rural-urban dichotomy, the diverging social characteristics of these distinct types of spatial organization have long attracted academic interest. Over three-quarters of the European population and two-thirds of the Hungarian population reside in urban areas, while 21% live in small towns, defined as settlements with a population of 5,000–50,000 inhabitants (Atkinson, 2019). The breakdown of urban growth across European regions is likely to follow a core-periphery pattern in the future, with peripheral regions facing decline and capital regions seeing an increase in their urban population. All this underlines the importance of the wider regional context that shapes the decline or development of small towns
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