Regional Statistics - Medium-Sized Towns in European Spatial Structure – international conference, 17 October 2018

Programme

Session I

• What is the diversity in the hierarchical organisation of urban systems like in Europe?
  Denise Pumain, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris)
• The small towns conundrum: What do we do about them?
  Rob Atkinson, University of the West of England (Bristol)
• European medium-sized cities in the age of the urban triumph
  Evert Meijers, Delft University of Technology (Delft)
• The role and possibilities of functional urban areas in Central and Eastern Europe
  Iván Tosics, Metropolitan Research Institute (Budapest)

Session II

• Size matters: Issues and challenges of local development (with a special focus on small and medium-sized towns in Czechia)
  Ludĕk Sýkora, Charles University (Prague)
• The Modern Cities Program as a new tool in the Hungarian spatial development policy
  Dávid Fekete, Széchenyi István University (Győr)
• The most important city development initiatives of Hungary in the last century
  János Rechnitzer – Judit Berkes, Széchenyi István University (Győr)