1 Introduction ................................................. 5
1.1 The issue of the study .................................. 5
1.2 The major objectives of the study ....................... 6
1.3 Hypotheses .............................................. 8
1.4 Sample areas ............................................ 9
1.5 Methods ................................................ 11
2 Theoretical foundations ..................................... 13
2.1 Globalisation and urban development ................... 13
3 A brief introduction of the research sites .................. 18
3.1 Székesfehérvár ......................................... 18
3.2 Tatabanya .............................................. 20
3.3 Sens ................................................... 21
4 The results of empirical researches ......................... 24
4.1 Economic relations ..................................... 24
4.1.1 Site selection - with special regard to the
immigration of foreign capital ventures ......... 24
4.1.2 Company centre - sub-centre relations ........... 28
4.1.3 The territorial structure of the consumption
of economic actors .............................. 28
4.1.4 Supplier relations .............................. 32
4.1.5 Labour migration ................................ 34
4.2 Social relations ....................................... 34
4.2.1 Migration processes ............................. 34
4.2.2 The spatial structure of residential
consumption ..................................... 40
4.2.3 Cities and their inhabitants: integration,
satisfaction, participation ..................... 41
5 New scientific results ...................................... 42
References .................................................. 46
List of figures
Figure 1 The steps of selecting the sample areas .............. 11
Figure 2 The geographical location of our research sample
areas in Hungary ..................................... 19
Figure 3 The geographical location of the research sample
areas in France ...................................... 22
Figure 4 The distribution of major employers by different
economic sectors ..................................... 23
Figure 5 Changes in the number of operating businesses
between 1996 and 2003 ................................ 24
Figure 6 The number of firms immigrating into Bourgogne
region from, ile-de-France and Rhone-Alpes regions
and the number of firms out-migrating to these
regions (between 1996 and 2001) ...................... 26
Figure 7 The consumption of economic actors in Hungarian
cities ............................................... 29
Figure 8 The distribution of services used by the
enterprises of Yonne County in other counties by
county ............................................... 30
Figure 9 The share of services used by foreign and Hungarian
firms in Budapest .................................... 31
Figure 10 The share of services used in Budapest between the
firms of Tatabanya and Szekesfehervar ................ 32
Figure 11 The geographical dimensions of supplier activities ... 33
Figure 12 The ratio of labour migrants out of the total
employees living in same locality (2001) ............. 35
Figure 13 The ratio of economically active population working
in the Paris region .................................. 36
Figure 14 Changes in the population number between 1990 and
2001 ................................................. 37
Figure 15 New results .......................................... 43
List of tables
Table 1 The number of cities with over 500 thousand
inhabitants grouped by city size and continents
(1975, 2000, 2015) .................................... 15
Table 2 Factors of agglomeration, the elements of relation
systems in urban areas as specified by the cited
scientific literature ................................. 16
Table 3 The elements of the relation systems investigated by
our research .......................................... 18
Table 4 The number of firms immigrating and out-migrating
from Paris between 2000 and 2005 ...................... 25
Table 5 The distribution of services used by the enterprises
of Yonne County outside Yonne County by county and
service sector ........................................ 30
Table 6 Changes in the population of the city of Sens and
its urban area between 1990 and 1999 .................. 38
Table 7 Changes in the population of our investigated cities
and their urban area between 1990 and 1999 ............ 39
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