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The transformation of Villages into Towns – A Quantitative Way of Hungarian Urbanisation. On 1 July, 2007, the President of the Republic of Hungary awarded the town rank to nine villages, consequently the number of Hungarian settlements possessing town rank reached 298. This rapid, predominantly quantitative urbanisation is highly disputed, although a thoroughgoing research of scholars in their detailed, ambitious prognosis and schedule of the process in 1996 projected nearly the same scenario. The present study investigates the connection between theory and practice, analysing the spatial and settlement pattern of the process.

Keywords: urbanisation, small towns, awarding and gaining town rank.