Conceptional Establishment of Town Based Regional Politics

Abstract

In this study I aim to write what can be the already known but forgotten bases of renewed (actually „retro") regional politics –. How can city-village categories be integrated and what are the regional economical bases of city oriented development policies. After that I summarize the changes of EU regional politics concerning our topic. By describing Hungarian history of this topic I aim to show that these questions are not new ones, we have to give 21th century answers to historical debts. New thing in „retro" regional development policy is the policentical development based on city regions; what integrates rural places in a new way and recreates the old city-village dichotomy. Concentrated decentralization must be helped by correcting accessibility.