SETTLEMENT MORPHOLOGY RESEARCHES SINCE TIBOR MENDÖL TO DATE
Abstract
The paper analyses the Hungarian researches on settlement morphology, since the beginning of the 20th century to date. Its primary goal is to demonstrate, without aiming at completion, the objectives, methods and prominent academics of settlement morphology researches. The early Hungarian researches on the image and structure of towns and cities took over the methodology and goals of the German urban geography, and their role was outstanding in Hungarian settlement geography. The regime change in 1949/1950 restructured the character of the researches, for ideological/political considerations. The focus was now on functional analyses, the rather few papers written on urban image were not given much publicity. After the regime change of 1990, morphology researches that primarily dealt with the functional restructuring of the towns and cities and the appearance of new morphology features were in the main stream of the settlement geography researches once again.
