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London, New York, Prague or Budapest. Who would not like to live in a successful city? To such places we associate high incomes and living standards, and good labour force conditions. Of course it is not only economic aspects that make a town or a village successful, as liveable residential environment, the meaningful possibilities of passing leisure time, learning, culture, sport, trade or good health services are parts of our lives just as well. And there are other things we have to mention, like well-functioning public transportation, public services at reasonable prices and of reliable quality, the infrastructure endowments in the background of this, and so many other things as well...

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Zoltán Koltai, PhD habil: Associate Professor, Head of Department, University of Pécs, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Education and Regional Development, Hungary

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