<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The survival of special Hungarian settlement forms (homesteads), due to the increasing urbanization phenomena, raises more and more questions. Are these forms of settlements of special, natural, landscape and cultural value? Or are the empty spaces that have lost their original function, which are relocating to the growing urban agglomerations? In our research, we sought to find out what kind of vision the Hungarian ‘farm’ could have on the 21<sup>st</sup> century Hungarian Great Plain. On the one hand, our empirical research focused on a homestead survey in the Bács-Kiskun County, where we surveyed the general condition of the farms, and on the other hand we carried out an opinion survey of the population. We have tried to compare the opinion of the urban population and the vision of the people living on the farms, to identify new functions that will fit in with the European rural development policy, financial and professional support in the future. Our results show that diversified developments can help the survival and development of homesteads.</p></abstract>

The survival of special Hungarian settlement forms (homesteads), due to the increasing urbanization phenomena, raises more and more questions. Are these forms of settlements of special, natural, landscape and cultural value? Or are the empty spaces that have lost their original function, which are relocating to the growing urban agglomerations? In our research, we sought to find out what kind of vision the Hungarian ‘farm’ could have on the 21st century Hungarian Great Plain. On the one hand, our empirical research focused on a homestead survey in the Bács-Kiskun County, where we surveyed the general condition of the farms, and on the other hand we carried out an opinion survey of the population. We have tried to compare the opinion of the urban population and the vision of the people living on the farms, to identify new functions that will fit in with the European rural development policy, financial and professional support in the future. Our results show that diversified developments can help the survival and development of homesteads.

Development Opportunities of Homesteads in Rural Areas a Social or an Economic Question?

Institute of Rural Development and Landscape management

Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development

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The survival of special Hungarian settlement forms (homesteads), due to the increasing urbanization phenomena, raises more and more questions. Are these forms...

Development Opportunities of Homesteads in Rural Areas a Social or an Economic Question?

Published Online: Jul 09, 2019

Page range: 42 - 46

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjbsd-2019-0008

Keywords
rural settlements, suburbanisation, sustainability, rural lifestyle, functional transformation of rural areas, diversified local development

© 2019 Dóra Nagyné Demeter et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Development Opportunities of Homesteads in Rural Areas a Social or an Economic Question?

Published Online: Jul 09, 2019

Page range: 42 - 46

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjbsd-2019-0008

Keywordsrural settlements, suburbanisation, sustainability, rural lifestyle, functional transformation of rural areas, diversified local development

© 2019 Dóra Nagyné Demeter et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
rural settlements, suburbanisation, sustainability, rural lifestyle, functional transformation of rural areas, diversified local development