Területi politika kulturális beruházásokon keresztül. Modern Városok Program kulturális fejlesztési kísérletei három nyugat-magyarországi megyeszékhelyen

Abstract

This study presents the cultural developments of the Hungarian Modern Cities
Program through the case of three Western Hungarian settlements (Győr,
Szombathely, Zalaegerszeg). The investigation reveals that we come across few
investments that represent novelty, that would link economic and settlement
development with creativity. In the study, we examine the cultural investments of
cities with county status, more closely the three selected cities. From their example,
we can deduce that the cultural investment concepts included in the Modern Cities
Program barely fit the development concepts and strategies of the settlements. A
good number of the planned developments included in the Modern Cities Program
failed. Only four of the eight ideas we examined were realized. The cultural
investments that are being implemented do little to support the innovative creative
and cultural economy, but at the same time they benefited the cultural institutional
system in a deteriorated state, and long-awaited developments could begin in this
area as well thanks to the Modern Cities Program.