Institute for social research in Zagreb
Demographic perspectives of macroregional and regional centres
1990
Croatian
The hypothesis that the network of central settlements in Croatia is of oligocentric type the author confirms through an analysis of universal demographic indicators for the fiv ecategories of central settlements selected: republican capital, macroregional centres, regional centres, commune centres, local centres. According to the author, Zagreb grew too fast in comparison with other centres and that was the direct result of the policy of rapid industrialization and urbanization which neglected the village and agriculture. Besides Zagreb, the cities of Spi t and Rijeka also expanded rapidly, and so did those commune centres in which industry developed. The author pleads for a more rational concept of urbanization and industrialization which would enable a polvcentric model of central settlements. This would not decrease the importance of Zagreb and macroregional centres, but would enable the higher quality of their basic functions
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