Urbanisation Development Trends of Cities in the North-Eastern Part of the Carpathian Basin

Because of the effects of globalisation, 4 phases of urbanisation are identified, nevertheless there are different opinions about the universal character of urbanisation. According to some authors urbanisation shows the same model almost everywhere, there are particular characteristics, which are special in the society, in the history and in the area, but after some time every modern society will produce the peculiarities of the 4 phases—even if there are significant postponements. Research results have established that in the cities of the north-eastern part of Carpathian Basin (Kosice, Miskolc, Debrecen, Nyíregyháza, Uzsgorod, Satu Mare, Baia Mare), local characteristics are emphasised. Firstly the common, later the different historical time, the different social-economic system and the differences of cultural heritage appeared. Some periods of urbanisation did not show or did not begin at all, at the same time some common features do exist. The big towns of the region underwent different development in the four countries and nowadays they are in connection with separated systems. Until the beginning of the 1990s urbanisation caused early, fragmentary and relatively low concentration of the population and after this time new circumstances were created. Theoretically this process should continue among new conditions, but the values, habits and attitudes of population change more slowly and indirectly. We can presume that the different groups of population react to challenges in special ways. Because of the well-known and analysed effects in these towns, we cannot calculate, not even theoretically, with the same urbanisation model that was used earlier in the western societies.