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PERRONNAS*
ABSTRACT. Urbanizationin centrally planned economies
takes place underother conditionsthan in marketeconomies
and displays a number of particularfeatures. Theories elaboratedfrom studies in marketeconomies are of limited use
when appliedto centrally plannedeconomies. Yet, centrally
plannedurbanizationhas received little attentionby western
scholars. The focus of the present paper is on post-WW II
urbanizationin Romania.Followinga discussion on some of
the implicationsof centralplanningon urbanizationand on the
means availablefor policy implementation,the actual developmentis studiedin the lightof the officialpolicies.
Background
Romania emerged from WW-I as a heteroeconomically,
geneous country--culturally,
ethnically and socially. The former Austro-Hungarian regions - Bucovina, Banat, Crigana,
Maramure? and Transylvania-had been more
open to the impact of the industrial revolution
than the provinces on the opposite side of the
Carpathians, which until 1877 had been under
Ottoman suzerainty. Transylvania in particular
had a rather advanced urban network. In Vallachia (Muntenia and Oltenia) industrialization had
been strongly concentrated to Bucureati and the
Prahova Valley, while on the Danubian Plain and
in Oltenia towns were far apart and predominantly agricultural. With few exceptions, towns in
Moldavia were agro-commercial.
The interwar economy was characterized by
increasingly depressed conditions in agriculture,
due to the fragmentation of holdings, decreasing
productivity and stagnant yields. Employment in
manufacturing increased at a slow rate and failed
to absorb the labour surplus in agriculture
(Ronnis, 1980). Neither industrial growth, nor
increasing standards of living were the main
promoter of urbanization in the interwar period,
but rather the pauperization of the peasantry.
Many peasants were forced to seek supplementary income from non-farm activities and many
eventually ended up as permanent town
64 B (1982)
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RONNAS
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GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER
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Cluj
Constanta
Craiova
Galati
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cities
Total urban
1966
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1977
Estimated Actual
Error %
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163.3
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ROMANIA
towns were pronounced industrial centres and tion in a depressed rural area apparently was the
decisive factor (Cimpeni, Huedin, Negrejti-Oaj
many of them located near mineral resources.
In the 1956-1966 intercensal period the con- and Singeorz-Bii). Eight towns were in Transylcentration of urban growth to manufacturing and vania.
mining centres was somewhat less pronounced.
The growth rate of most mining and heavy industry towns decreased. Growth rates generally declined in the more developed Crigana, Banat and Regional policy since 1966
Transylvania and increased in Vallachia, Dobro- The administrative reform in 1968 marks the begea and Moldavia, but large intra-regional varia- ginning of a new era in which the regional aspect
tions persisted. In 1965 yet another 12 localities on development plays a much more important
received urban status; seven of them were cen- part. A more complex view on urban places
tres for heavy industry, but in four cases a loca- came to prevail, stressing centre-hinterland rela-
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