标题：CONSIDERA.II GEOGRAFICE ASUPRA CRE.TERII POPULA.IEI
URBANE .I A RE.ELEI DE ORA.E DIN ROM.NIA, .N PERIOADA 1966-2002.
GEOGRAPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON POPULATION GROWTH
AND TOWN NETWORK EXPANSION IN ROMANIA BETWEEN 1966-2002.
摘要：In the post-war period, the newly-emerged towns were based on administrative criteria, being the
outcome of government decrees. Most of them originated from the better developed rural settlements that met
certain demographic and building criteria (over 5000 inhabitants and a preponderantly non-agrarian structure).
In 1966, in Romania there were 183 towns grouped as follows: the majority were small towns with under 20
000 inhabitants (119 towns); 51 middle-seized towns, 20,000-100,000 inhabitants; 13 large cities, over
100,000 inhabitants, concentrating nearly 50 per cent of the urban population, primarily Bucharest, Romania's
Capital, with a population of 1.4 million. Four decades later, in 2002, the picture looked as follows: 267 towns
of which 159 small-sized, 85 medium-sized and 23 large. At present, the urbanization process in Romania
passes through a critical stage as the two modalities of urban population increase (natural and migratory) have
greatly diminished; so, political-administrative measures had to be taken to turn rural settlements into towns.
