Development Trajectories of Small Towns in East Slovakia

Novotný Ladislav (), Csachová Stela (), Kulla Marián (), Nestorová-Dická Janetta () and Pregi Loránt ()
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Novotný Ladislav: Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Jasenná 5, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Csachová Stela: Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Jasenná 5, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Kulla Marián: Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Jasenná 5, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Nestorová-Dická Janetta: Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Jasenná 5, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Pregi Loránt: Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Jasenná 5, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia

European Countryside, 2016, vol. 8, issue 4, 373-394

Abstract: Small towns, compared to larger cities, are specific group of municipalities with weaker performance in many spheres of socio-economic development. The aim of the paper is to comprehensively evaluate development of twelve small towns in the region of East Slovakia over the centuries up to present. The paper deals with question how their demographic and economic developments have been reciprocally influenced under particular historical circumstances. Using various sources of statistical data and employing traditional historical, mathematical-statistical and cartographical methods, regularities and patterns were identified that enabled us to categorize small towns and evaluate their development trajectories and current roles in the settlement system. In the most cases, they are still valid nodes for their hinterlands even though their past situation has been unfavourable.

Keywords: small towns; East Slovakia; population; economy; commuting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/euco-2016-0026

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