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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2009  
         
  Article:   PROVINCIA CORVINIA CONURBATIO.

Authors:  D. RUS.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Provincia Corvinia Conurbatio. Conurbatio represents an urban structure resulted from the territorial union of two or more nearby towns, which keep their identity even though they are gathered in a single administrative unit. Within the conurbatio, due to the territorial extension and the socio-economic development, the component towns, which up to a given moment developed independently, must solve common problems (transportation, water and energy supply, environment planning and protection, etc.). After Romania has become a member of the European Union, the lack of a large city in Hunedoara County raised problems concerning the attraction of European funds necessary to the development of the infrastructure and the development of public interest projects. Moreover, situated in the neighbourhood of large cities such as Timişoara, Arad and Sibiu, the municipality of Deva had no chance to become an economic centre of regional importance. In 2007 a solution was found for this disadvantage to disappear, by elaborating a project to unite the towns of Deva, Hunedoara, Simeria and Călan (the distances between these towns are less than 15 km), within a territorial administrative entity, named Provincia Corvinia Conurbatio. The population of the conurbatio would reach the number of 170 000 inhabitants, taking into account the communes/ villages that are included in the perimeter of the four towns. At the end of the year 2000, UE and the Romanian government put forward a normative allotting the sum of 1.4 billion Euros for 13 ‘poles of urban development’: Arad, Baia-Mare, Bacău, Brăila, Galaţi, Deva, Oradea, Piteşti, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, Satu-Mare, Sibiu, Suceava and Târgu-Mureş. These towns will have the role of a ‘binder’ between ‘the poles of growth’, respectively the towns of Braşov, Cluj- Napoca, Constanţa, Craiova, Iaşi, Ploieşti and Timişoara. As a future pole of development, Deva (subsequently Provincia Corvinia Conurbatio) is among the few areas in the country where there exists a coherent plan of socio-economic development, agreed by the local councils of the component towns. Also, by 2010 the problem of the administration of the conurbatio will be solved from a judicial point of view.

Keywords: Conurbatio, poles of urban development, urban agglomeration, Provincia Corvinia Conurbatio Project, Hunedoara County.
 
         
     
         
         
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