The Centre for Regional Studies (CRS) is a multidisciplinary research institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, pursuing social studies (academic as well as applied research) focused on spatial issues. This particular orientation is supported also by the network-based structure of the institute: we operate 10 departments in 9 towns/cities (the headquarter is in Pécs).

Research topics related to services are the followings:
− Business services and regional development;
− Services in the innovation process – innovation in services;
− Public services: efficiency, location and planning;
− Public administration and regional planning;
− Services in urban space: suburbanisation, gentrification; transformation of urban land markets;
− Geography of retailing.

For further information of publication and research activities in the CRS please, have a look at www.rkk.hu.

G.Barta, E.G.Fekete, I.Kukorelli Szörényiné and JTimar have published a new book :

Hungarian Spaces and Places : Patterns of Transition

Nagy, Erika (2006): A fogyasztás átalakuló tereinek szabályozási–tervezési környezete Kelet-Közép-Európában (Retail restructuring under Neoliberalism: A new era of planning in East Central Europe) Európai Tükör, Vol. 11, No. 2.
Nagy Erika (2006): Az üzleti szolgáltatások szerepe a periféria-képződésben (The APS sector in the peripheral regions). In: A perifériaképződés típusai és megjelenési formái Magyarországon. (Interpreting Peripherality in Hungarian Regional Development). Eds: Kanalas, I._Kiss, A. MTA RKK ATI: Kecskemét, pp. 98-111.
Nagy, Erika (2005): Strategies of international investors in Hungary’s emerging retail market In: Foreign Investments and Regional Development in East Central Europe (ed. by D. Turnock) Ashgate: London 291–305.
Nagy, Erika (2005): Regional development and the rise of the APs sector in an emerging economy. Service Industries Journal, vol.25.No.2.229-253.
Nagy, Erika (2005): Condition of locality: a critical view of the urbanisation process in the post-transition Hungary. Geographia Polonica. 2005.2. 137-151.
Nagy Erika (2005): Retail Restructuring and Emerging Spatial Patterns of Consumption: New Aspects of Development Disparities in Hungary. In: Hungarian spaces and Places: Patterns of Transition. (eds. Gy. Barta, É. Fekete G., I. Kukorelli Szörényiné, J. Timár) MTA RKK: Pécs pp. 161–182.
Nagy, Erika (2002): Fragmentation and centralisation: Transition of the retail sector in East Central Europe. European Retail Digest, Templeton College, University of Oxford, March
2002. pp. 41–45.
Nagy, Erika –Gál, Zoltán – Molnár, Balázs (2002): A termelői szolgáltatások szerepe a helyi és térségi gazdaság fejlődésében. (The APS sector as the engine of local and regional economic restructuring) Tér és társadalom 2002/3.
Nagy Erika (2001): Winners and Losers of the Transition of City Centre Retailing in East
Central Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol.8 No.4: 340–349.
Nagy Erika (2000): Transition of Urban Space in Two Systems: The Fractal Geometry of Hungarian Provincial Cities. Cybergeo, European Journal in Geography 18/10/2000. p.14
Nagy Erika (1999): Fall and Revival of City Centre Retailing: Planning an Urban Function in Leicester, Britain. Discussion Papers, 26, Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies. p.60
Nagy Erika (1999): A kereskedelmi ingatlanfejlesztések néhány sajátossága és térszerkezet-formáló sze¬re¬pe a kelet-közép-európai városokban. (Retail property development and urban restructuring in East Central Europe) Alföldi Tanulmányok, Vol. XVII. 1998–1999. pp. 13–29.

Erika Nagy,
Centre for Regional Studies
Bekescsaba
Szabo dezso str. 42.
H-5600
Phone/fax: +36 66 441801
+36 66 328577
email:nagye@rkk.hu..