A városi szétterülés környezeti következményeinek néhány sajátossága a kül- és egyéb belterületeken, 2021
Some characteristics of the environmental consequences of urban sprawl in external and other internal areas, 2021

Summary/Abstract: Urban sprawl is one of the most promi-nent processes of urban development, of great importance in post-socialist coun-tries, too. Urban space use reshapes the traditional rural landscape, resulting in environmental and social sustainability challenges. The intensive changes are not only reshaping the suburban belt, but also transform the outskirts of our cities. This subprocess is differentiated at micro-scale, and this fragmentation may hide it in certain databases. The study attempts to provide additions re-garding this peculiarity. The authors se-lected three case studies for detailed ex-amination: those of Győr, Kecskemét and Szeged. GIS methods, field examina-tion, surveys and expert interviews have been used to get a detailed picture of the demographic and land cover change processes, as well as the distinctions be-tween the destination areas of the case studies.The comparison of results drawn from different methods reveal that land use changes in the study areas are more widespread than what the land cover datasets indicate. The authors’ observa-tions show that Corine Land Cover cate-gories describing mixed land use – espe-cially complex cultivation patterns – are not able to capture the drastic function shift caused by intense suburbanization. Different environmental and social sus-tainability issues have been identified depending on the economic status of outmigrants. The paper also sheds some light on urban planning considerations regarding this emerging challenge.

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