SPECIFICS AND PROBLEMS IN THE SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF STARA ZAGORA MUNICIPALITY Cover Image

SPECIFICS AND PROBLEMS IN THE SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF STARA ZAGORA MUNICIPALITY
SPECIFICS AND PROBLEMS IN THE SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF STARA ZAGORA MUNICIPALITY

Author(s): Kamen Petrov, Nikolay Tsonkov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Governance, Developing nations, Geopolitics
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: municipality; spatial development; urban development; Stara Zagora

Summary/Abstract: This article is dedicated to the spatial development model of Stara Zagora municipality. The focus is on planning and managing the territory of the municipality. The process is presented in a complex aspect, which is tied to spatial development. The major purpose of the research is thorugh interdisciplinary approach to identify and analyze the specifics and problems of the Stara Zagora municipality spatial development. The authors explore the territotorial development of Stara Zagora, on the one hand, and on the other, the formation of specific patterns of space utilization and the territory's arrangement. Also the research brings out the importance of the Gross Domestic Product per person of the population in an area of Stara Zagora as a measure of the average level of the population. The authors prove the necessity for significantly increasing the average level of GDP per person for the region. This positive trend is a function of both the high GDP that produces the district and the population partly due to these high differences.

  • Issue Year: 2/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 88-102
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English