SUBURBANISATION IN THE AREA OF OUTSKISRTS AND INCORPORATED VILLAGES WHITIN THE CITY LIMITS OF GYŐR

Abstract

Hungarian suburbanisation has some specific peculiarity, because of administrative traditions and the special settlement network. A municipality can be divided into 3 parts: 2 inner parts (core, incorporated villages) and outskirts. The changes of spatial structure of incorporated villages is resulted the phenomenon of the suburbanization within city limits. During this process, residents tend to change their living conditions to a more rural one without leaving the area of the statisctical municipality. Outskirts are mostly remote-rural-like scattered or interim habitations within the administrative limits of a city or village but these are usually separated from main built-up areas. Areas of outskirts and former villages attracted 55,1% of suburban movement outside of Budapest Agglomeration since 1990.

My method was a questionnaire involving 458 households and a census of outskirt plots and incorporated villages in the sample area of Győr. Most of the residents came from the city to rural milieu and their main motivations were low utility costs, gardening opportunities and slow lifestyle. A significant part of them is especially looking for remote-rural-like environment and community, however they want to stay close to the city. High proportion of migrants have low-income and disadvantages. The repeated expansion of modest houses resulted in a chaotic townscape that is creating conflicts within neighbourhoods.