ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the effects of post-Fordist and post-communist developments on the spatial organisation of superimposed old and new socio-economic and ethnic forms of exclusion in Hungary. It outlines the research results from material gathered on changes to the spatial segregation patterns in Budapest from 1930 to 1990. The chapter then analyses the shifts in residential segregation in the inter-war and post Second World War periods, using Vienna as a comparison. It also examines the spatial segregation characteristics of the lowest-status population group and the lowest-status ethnic group in Budapest, and details recent trends in ghettoisation and suburbanisation. The 1930s saw a moderate increase in socio-economic segregation in Budapest which had decreased considerably by the end of the 1940s. The more moderate segregation apparent in Budapest after the Second World War is far from unique. The primary reason for the change in Budapest's residential segregation patterns were the acceleration of Roma migration to Budapest, especially to the inner slum belt.
