THE SUBURBANISATION AND SEGREGATION AT THE OUTSKIRTS - EXAMPLES OF CONFLICTS OF THE HUNGARIAN AGGOMERATIONS

Abstract

Suburbanizason is one of the most important process in Hungary and because of the special settlement system of the country 26,1 % of migration went to the areas of outskirts, rather than into the main built up areas of incorporated settlements. These rural-urban fringes can be written as the conflict-ridden zones of fast changes of land use and social conditions. In order to examine how this process effect on local society we made a survey assessed 1800 households at the suburban zones of 4 cities, Győr, Hódmezővásárhely, Szeged and Zalaegerszeg.

According to answers this phenomenon caused strong differentiation beetwen outskirts. Destinations with good accesability suffer from the  consequences of gentrification and original landscape usualy become displaced. The poor native residents cannot lobbying for their interests, as well as local goverments often turn a blind eye on irregular landuse forms because of hoped tax revenue. Overall, the above divide local community into secluded groups.

Less attractive outskirts are target areas of the forced outmigration from the city of underclass, broken families and romani people. Some of these places can help them to stabilise their financial status, because of cheap utility costs. However habitats with worst conditoned infrastucture are slums and the residents there suffer from environmental inequality and they are completely vulnerable to landlords. The livelihood of marginal groups is often threatened at outskirts with renewing infrastructure due to transforming land use patterns, because the possibility of holiculture is a key element of their survival strategies.