PÁL GERMUSKA:

Under the Spell of Industry
(In Hungarian)

Introduction

Chapter I

Industrial towns, new towns, socialist towns

A monumental propaganda weapon: the socialist town

The socialist town as a functional concept

Possible parallels: new towns

The concept of a socialist town and Hungary’s socialist towns

Chapter II

Industrialization and urbanization, 1890–1944

Industrialization and promotion of industry under the Dual Monarchy

Urbanization at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

Promotion of industry and industrial decentralization in 1920–44

The urbanizing effects of industrialization in 1920–44

Chapter III

Socialist industrialization and socialist towns, 1948–53

The transitional period—growth in the role of industry

Preparation and compilation of the First Five-Year Plan, 1948–9

Finalization of the First Five-Year Plan

The first year of the First Five-Year Plan and raising its estimates

A national plan for location of industry and socialist national organization

The hardest year: 1952

Settlement development plans and classification of settlements

The effect of the early years of socialist industrialization

Chapter IV

Territorial and settlement development, Urbanization
and the socialist towns, 1954–89

The years of restraint, 1954–8

The first coherent territorial development programme; industrialization in the 1960s

The national settlement-network development concept (OTK) and its influences

Adjustments to the OTK; events in the 1980s

The situation of the socialist towns in the 1970s and 1980s

A balance sheet of four decades of development policy

Urbanization processes in Hungary in 1945–89

Chapter V

Town-planning theories and the spatial structure of Hungarian socialist towns

Town-building theories and Soviet prototypes

Guidelines for building Hungarian socialist towns

The spatial structure of Hungarian socialist towns

List of illustrations

Bibliography

List of abbreviations

Expected date of publication: mid-December 2004