Tamás HARDI, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Institute for Regional Studies West-Hungarian Research Institute, Hungary
Jen? Zsolt FARKAS, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Institute for Regional Studies West-Hungarian Research Institute, Hungary
Edit HOYK, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Institute for Regional Studies West-Hungarian Research Institute, Hungary
Urban sprawl processes reached the less urbanized Central European region in the last decades, leading to very fast and less planned changes in our settlement system. Our research examines four Central European regional centers: Nitra (SK), Gy?r, Kecskemét (HU), and Cluj-Napoca (RO) Functional Urban Area.
This presentation aims to point out spatial patterns of urban sprawl and suburbanization in these functional urban areas (FUA) and to characterize the differences among countries. We can detect suburbanization from the core city to the periurban areas in each country and at the same time a very dynamic inflow of migrants from the other parts of these countries. The research is based on standard geographical methods including field research. Desktop and field empirical researches were conducted, with different methods such as GIS analysis of land-use change. Our analysis shows to what extent cities and urban areas grow, from which one can conclude how the landscape surrounding the urban residential areas has changed. Our data demonstrate, moreover, how artificial patches and barriers fragment landscape more and more, endangering thereby biodiversity and decreasing green surfaces. Our examination covers the 2000-2018 period, using the CORINE CLC 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018 databases. Thereby we can examine changes in a longer period of almost two decades and three internal periods. All this is compared to the economic and social changes of these countries as well, to see to what extent the change in these features contributes to the transformation of the periurban landscape and thereby to its environmental and social sustainability.
This research is supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Fund (NKFIA). Reference number: NKFI-6-K-128703. Title: The Effects of Suburbanisation, Urban Sprawl on the Environmental Change of Suburbs in Central European Middle-Sized Urban Regions.
Mots clés : urban sprawl |landscape change |Central Europe|built-up area pattern|environmental impact
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