Hungary ; Small town ; Spatial structure ; Town ; Transdanubia ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban morphology
The author investigates the spatial structure and urban development of Pápa a middle sized Hungarian town in north western Transdanubia. Because of its civic cultural and clerical traditions Pápa used to belong to those Hungarian towns which were
strongly discriminated by the urban development policy of the communist rule. Paradoxically the four decades of Sleeping Beauty period did good to the town after all, since the urban structure of Pápa was not destroyed by the megalomaniac building projects