Malá města Středočeského kraje jako aktéři meziobecní spolupráce.
Martina Urbanová
Small towns as actors inter-municipal cooperation (focusing on the Central Bohemia Region)Small towns are the natural centers of rural areas and have a role to play in rural development. Their development potential applied mainly in cooperation with other municipalities - within micro-regions and other regional bodies. This paper focuses on the Central Bohemia Region, where the consequences of the process manifested metropolisation and considerable fragmentation of the settlement structure (in comparison with other regions, the Central Bohemia Region has the highest proportion of the population living in municipalities with up to 1999 inhabitants). Meaning metropolisation process lies in its potential impact on the ability of small towns to fulfill the role of peripheral center of rural areas. This paper will focus on ways of exploring the role of small towns in regional development. The focus of paper represents two basic questions. (1) To what extent are the same small town in the Central Region with micro-centers and other regional bodies. (2) What about the interrelations between representations of small towns with management the intermunicipal cooperation.
