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Small Towns and Intercomunal Construction. Case Study: Bihor County, Romania
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
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Small Towns and Intercomunal Construction. Case Study: Bihor County, Romania
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FILIMON, Luminiţa; Lecturer, Faculty of History, Geography and International Relations, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
PETREA, Rodica; Professor, Faculty of History, Geography and International Relations, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania PETREA, Dănuţ; Professor, Department of Physical and Technical Geography, Faculty of Geography, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania FILIMON, Claudiu; Lecturer, Faculty of History, Geography and International Relations, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania |
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Romania, development potential, small towns, poles of development, urban area
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The present study intends to highlight the way in which the small towns in Bihor County, Romania are trying to find again their place and part in the upsetting territorial construction, through various mutations of their functions, after the fall of the communist regime. The setup of the Territorial Planning Units (TPUs) in the effort to optimize the territorial development through construction of structures of intercommunal cooperation, turned some small towns in Bihor County into poles of local development. The question that this study intends to answer is: Are these towns capable to assume this role, considering the relict structures inherited from the communist past? In order to answer it, we considered the development potential of the small towns as a tool of assessment and validation of the viability of the poles imposed by the intercommunal construction. Thus, we carried out the comparison between the real development poles, highlighted by the analysis of potential, and non-viable development poles, imposed by the intercommunal construction, thus resulting in a typology. The suggested typology identifies three types of development poles: viable, vulnerable and non-viable. Applied to other counties as well, this typology can become a tool of assessment of the functionality of the intercommunal construction.
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Babes Bolyai University
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This contribution represents results from the following reserch project PN II, TE_287, no. 74/2010.
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2011-10-01
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/303
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Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2011: Issue No. 34 E/October; 114-126
1842-2845 |
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eng
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http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/303/296
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Copyright (c) 2014 Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
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