Progress in regional convergence in the EU has been uneven over the last two decades.
While Central and Eastern Europe has been catching up, Southern Europe has often lost …

The paper depicts the emergence of metropolitan region policies in Europe as being linked
to the globalization debate and demonstrates how the idea of supporting metropolitan …

This paper intends to fill a gap in critical smart city scholarship regarding the Central Eastern
European (CEE) context. To this end, smart city understandings and practices in Hungary's …

Large cities are becoming increasingly valuable in the spatial structure of globalized
economies. Although these centers vary significantly regarding population, economic …

This chapter takes a look at the evolution of manufacturing industries in Pécs, a shrinking
regional centre in Southern Hungary. Industrialisation and de-industrialisation processes …

The transformation of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has been the subject of
considerable interest in social sciences. With systemic change, EU integration and …

Although several research studies have been published on post-socialist urban
development in Hungary and also in the Central European region from various aspects and …

In this chapter, we focus on the changes brought by the pandemic and the different
adaptation strategies which coworking spaces needed to use to adjust to the challenges …

This chapter discusses the regional differentiation underlying the structural transformation of
CEE economies. It is argued that restructuring is embedded within worldwide rescaling …

The present paper discusses the case of the Madrid Nuevo Norte Project (MNNP) aiming to
examine how MNNP is aligned with the principles of sustainability and the creation of a …