The characteristics of post-suburbanisation on the example of Gödöllő, a sub-centre of the Budapest agglomeration area
Abstract
The most important obligatory characteristics of post-suburbia are; developped transportation system, direct proximity to motorways or expressways, rapid accessibility of the urban core, surplus commuting (more people are commuting towards post-suburbia than to the central city), high-quality educational institutes, numerous commercial and other service units, different workplaces – especially for highly educated and creative people) and innovation centres. The city of Gödöllő is truly characterised in high-quality by all of these features. It is streghtening the hypothetis that the town’s functions, appearance refer to become a real post-suburbia. The complex catchment area – apart from the situation in Hungary’s biggest agglomeration area and the proximity (only 30 km) of Budapest – of Gödöllő exceedingly widespreads, covering plenty of settlements in the neighboring counties (such as Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Heves, Nógrád), moreover almost the whole territory of Pest county’s eastern parts and the some districts of the capital. These information are well prouved by the cross-commuting features, the extensive area where the employed people are coming daily to Gödöllő, the catchment areas of the intermediate educational institutes and the university, which occassionally exceeds 40-60 km.
Gödöllő – that permanently and dinamically changes its economical, social and egsistential features, its supplying funcions and modernised urban landscape – is an adequate example of the old-new centre-formation in the Budapest Metropolitan Area. The town (post-suburban settlement) is becoming apparently one of the inferior centres next to the urban core, consequently slowly but permanently new recentralisational processes are peculiar through the Budapest periurban area.
