Industrial Areas of Budapest in the Last Decade

Abstract

After 1989 radical changes have started in the industry of Budapest, which have had a great impact directly or indirectly on the location of industry and on the utilization of former industrial areas. The main purpose of this study is to demonstrate the major processes and changes on the traditional industrial areas taken place in the last decade. Namely, how large these old industrial areas are and how they are reutilised. The study is based upon the results of a survey carried out in 2006 to reveal the measure of the functional transformation of industrial areas.

During the last decade the former processes (deindustrialisation, rehabilitation, decrease of industrial areas, change in their function) have been continued, but to a different degree. Due to them the spatial pattern of the city and its functional division have significantly trans- formed by now.