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Rural settlements in transition – agricultural and countryside crisis in the Central-Eastern Europe

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The paper presents a synthesis of French and Bulgarian researches on the transition in villages in Central Eastern Europe. The main points focus on three questions, the rural unemployment and the crisis of small towns, the demographical deterioration, the new relations between villages and towns. A generalization of the rural central places' visual change and metaphors is proposed, completed by a typology of rural settlements. The question of the rural administrative divisions is discussed, with its implication for the future. As a whole the paper gives a contribution to the problematic of the likely development in the rural evolution pattern throughout Europe.

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Rey, V., Bachvarov, M. Rural settlements in transition – agricultural and countryside crisis in the Central-Eastern Europe. GeoJournal 44, 345–353 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006850525893

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