ABSTRACT
Taking the country as a whole, Czechoslovakia is at a medium level of urbanization. In 1976, 55.5% of the population of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) lived in urban communities, while in the CSR the urbanization level is higher. The concept of settlement development and urbanization in the CSR originated within the complex of prognoses based on the 1971 CSR government decision; Terplan 12 worked on it from 1971 to 1975. The rapid economic advance of the SSR, especially the industrialization rate, greater growth of population, and the morphological conditions in Slovakia made the strategy place greater emphasis on the rate of concentration trends. The CSSR ranks with Hungary and Poland among the countries where intensive work on national settlement strategies had already started at the beginning of the 1960s. Regional agglomerations consist of one or more core cities, usually large or medium-sized – in Czechoslovak terms – including their immediate hinterlands.
