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The Urbanisation and Infrastructural Development of Villages in the S. R. Croatia
Adolf Malić
Sažetak
Urbanisation spreads in two basic
ways: 1. through the growth
of towns, their physical expansion
(direct urbanisation), and 2.
when villages accept urban contents
and urban characteristics
(indirect urbanisation).
The number of towns in the S. R.
Croatia increased from 70 in 1961,
to 214 in 1981. Direct urbanisation
of villages also takes place
through the incorporation of rural
into urban 'settlements. On the
whole, today rural settlements
are changing quickly and completely,
as they never did before. Indirect
paths or urbanisation in
the Yugoslav village are very varied,
and it is difficult to include
them all. Villages obtain many
urban characteristics in appearance
and from the functional aspect.
In 1981, 384 rural settlements
had central functions of
the lowest order, and 61 rural
settlements had central functions
of the II degree of centrality. Villages
are increasingly accepting
non-agrarian functions, especially
those connected to tourism and
industry, and a certain number
of villages around large cities are
getting a residential function. The
factor of communications plays
a decisive role when villages accept
urban characteristics. Today
already 58 percent rural (other)
settlements in the S. R. Croatia
have bus stations (stops), and
only 6 percent have railway stations.
Village settlements are adopting
institutions that used to be urban
in character. Today only 2.7 percent
village settlements have a
permanent cinema, every twentythird village has a doctor, every
twelfth an eight-year school, every
forty-first a public library.
Almost every fourth village has
public waterworks, and in 1981,
34.5 percent households in (other)
village settlements had water,
sewage and electricity.
A more recent regional indicator
of the urbanisation of rural areas
is the coefficient of existing holiday
houses. In 1981 this was 0.032
for urban settlement in the S. R.
Croatia, and 0.093 for rural settlements.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119677
URI
Datum izdavanja:
8.9.1983.
Posjeta: 1.163 *