The appearance and role of micro-regional co-operations in the Hungarian spatial development

Year, pages: 2005, 229 - 246

The study deals with smallest spatial developing unit, the so called micro-regional tier. This tier had developed during the transition process. Institutionalism and operation of the organizations of micro-regions can be linked to three periods during the transition decade. The 1990s was the first period, known as the “early days”. In this period there was a diffuse atomized local municipality system with micro-regional co-operations mainly in the rural areas, which supported the villages with the aim of enhancing their lobbying capacity. During the second period these organizations operated as a bottom-up model and gained different financial resources for the common infrastructure development and started a way of micro-regional thinking. The third period started after the appearance of the 1996/21 Act (on physical planning and spatial development). It was a significant milestone for micro-regional co-operation, because this act defined the micro-regional level and declared micro-regional co-operation in the Spatial Development Association of Municipalities. The micro-regional tier can be named the tier of bottom-up and local will. In the rural areas, it meant a social innovation process, which is the result of this tier and is strengthened by the modified spatial development act in 2004.

Kukorelli Szörényiné, I. 2005. The appearance and role of micro-regional co-operations in the Hungarian spatial development. In Geografický časopis, vol. 57, no.3, pp. 229-246. 0016-7193.

Kukorelli Szörényiné, I. (2005). The appearance and role of micro-regional co-operations in the Hungarian spatial development. Geografický časopis, 57(3), 229-246. 0016-7193.