Types of rural and urban territories in Poland, Hungary, Romania and European Russia
https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU0579-9414.5.78.1.10
Abstract
Four post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary, Romania and Russia) were comparatively analyzed in terms of the relative position and dynamics of different types of territories over a ten-year period from 2010 to 2020. The author develops methodological ideas about the usage of individual typology to create a socio-economic profile of a territory in order to identify spatial inequality of the countries under study upon socio-demographic, economic and infrastructural indicators. The results of the analysis allowed concluding about dominant trends of socio-economic differentiation between rural, urban and peri-urban zones. It was found that the intraregional spatial convergence is not an obligatory consequence of the socio-economic development of a country. The transformation processes which accompany the post-socialist transition led to the formation of different models of spatial socio-economic differentiation in each country, i. e. relatively balanced development in Poland, zonal development in Hungary and differentiated development in Romania and European Russia. The author suggests a concept of main stages and directions of the socio-economic differentiation of territories, which helps to systematize statistically-obtained conclusions.
About the Author
A. M. Ershov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Master in Geography
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Ershov A.M. Types of rural and urban territories in Poland, Hungary, Romania and European Russia. Lomonosov Geography Journal. 2023;(1):118-128. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU0579-9414.5.78.1.10
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