Suburbanization in Hungary – A Case Study of Pécs

Abstract

The suburbanisation – the second stage of the urbanisation process started in Hungary in the middle of the 1980's. The out migration from the centres of the largest towns to the ring and to the villages around them started at this time, first in Budapest, then in about 1990 in the other larger towns. This article examines the scale and the reasons of this process around Pécs, the fifth largest Hungarian town. 1n the 1990's all the settlements near Pécs had population growth. At that time the population of Baranya county decreased. Most of the people who migrated out from Pécs were intellectuai workers, who came from one of the large block of flats of Pécs. They appreciate the villages better than Pécs due to the environment, neighbourhood and the public security, but Pécs still has better accessibility factors.