Development of Hungarian Regions and Their Interface with European Geodesign Models

Abstract

Each region has different capabilities: different natural resources, population composition, education, motivation, cultures, habits, wages, different capital volume and different levels of knowledge capital are available; accordingly each area develops essentially through inequalities.
The Hungarian regions are struggling with the „inertia of the crawl path” based on numerous studies. The development of the border regions is still marked by 100 years ago Trianon, which cut off the former village-city relations in several stages, leaving cities deprived of their catchment areas and villages isolated from their centres. Later, the change of regime caused preservation and/or strengthening of former centres due to the loss of East market and industrial restructing and lack of appropriate development concepts. Accession to the European Union has brought about a number of changes in regional policy, which have also affected the development of the regions.
The developmental divide of the Hungarian regions is presented by rethinking and depicting the European spatial structure, so-called geodesign, models, assuming that the Hungarian part of the ‘Boomerang’ which was created by Gorzelak has a more extensive development zone now than it had almost 25 years ago: it is not just the Vienna-Budapest axis that stands out.