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Throughout the Communist period industrialization was central to Romania’s economic growth. By 1989 industry accounted for 58.1 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), and it remains the main component of Romania’s economic activity.1 Throughout the Communist period too, urbanization was regarded as the exclusive achievement of industrialization. In total, 95 per cent of industrial units were located in urban centres: for a rural settlement to achieve the status of a town it had to possess its own industry along with flats to house industrial workers. Industrial activity was focused on about 200 towns. Industrial units were typically very large and concentrated in one location. This had the effect of changing the urban structure of the country and redefining relations between a town and its surrounding zone.
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Ianoş, I. (2001). Economic Transition and Urban Industrial Employment in Post-Communist Romania. In: Light, D., Phinnemore, D. (eds) Post-Communist Romania. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977910_10
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