FROM SPATIAL INEQUALITIES TO SOCIAL WELL-BEING

Összefoglaló

Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences
Székesfehérvár 2015 Content Foreword................. 9
The History of Researching ‘Social Well-being’ in Hungary
Viktória Szirmai...........................................11
I. INTRODUCTION........................................17
Social Well-being Issues in Europe: the Possibility of a
More Competitive Europe – Viktória Szirmai................... 19
Social well-being issues in Western Europe........................ 21
Social well-being issues in Eastern Europe......................... 27
Europe’s competitiveness................................... 36
International Public Policies on Well-Being
Gyöngyvér Hervainé Szabó.................................. 41
Introduction............................................ 41
The sustainable city as a normative model of urban development......... 41
Results and failures of Eastern and Central European modernisation...... 42
The European Union’s urban development policy.................... 44
The well-being aspects of urban development...................... 47
Summary.............................................. 54
II. SPATIAL INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING ISSUES....55
The Socio-Demographic Structure of the Hungarian Metropolitan
Regions – Júlia Schuchmann – Zsuzsanna Váradi................ 57
Introduction............................................ 57
The main characteristics.................................... 57
Summary.............................................. 77
The Spatial Social Characteristics of Hungarian Metropolitan
Regions and the Transformation of the Core—Periphery Model
Viktória Szirmai – Zoltán Ferencz............................. 79
Introduction............................................ 79
The historical background................................... 81
Processes perceived in Budapest metropolitan region................. 85
Transformation of spatial social structure: the situation in 2014.......... 87
Summary.............................................. 97
Social Well-being Characteristics and Spatial-Social
Determinations – Márton Berki – Levente Halász............... 101
Introduction........................................... 101
Stiglitz’s dimensions of well-being as applied to Hungarian metropolitan regions 103
Summary............................................. 127
C
Well-being Deficits in Disadvantaged Regions
Katalin Kovács – Judit Timár – Monika Mária Váradi............ 129
Introduction........................................... 129
Well-being deficit characteristics.............................. 131
Processes maintaining well-being deficits.........................137
Public policies, local practices................................ 139
Summary............................................. 143
III. CONCLUSIONS....................................... 145
How Can We Get from Spatial Inequalities to Social Well-being?
Viktória Szirmai.......................................... 147
The characteristics of spatial inequalities........................ 149
Differences between metropolitan regions....................... 151
The spatial determinants of social well-being...................... 153
The social well-being based competitiveness of metropolitan regions....... 157
From spatial inequalities to social well-being...................... 160
Literature............................................... 162
APPENDIX.............................................. 171
Description of the Examined Major Hungarian Cities............ 173
Map................................................... 179
Index.................................................. 180
List of Tables and Figures.................................. 184
Authors of the Book...................................... 186