The Extent to Which Social Factors Affect Urban Functional Mutations and Transformations

Contemporary metropolitan areas and large cities are dynamic, rapidly growing and continuously changing. Thus, urban transformations and mutations are not a new phenomenon, but rather a continuous process. Basic factors of urban transformation are related to development of technologies, globalisation, lifestyle, etc., which in combination with local factors have generated an extremely great variety of urban development conditions. This article discusses the main urbanisation processes in Lithuania during last 50-year period and social factors affecting urban functional mutations.

Authors:

• S. Mozuriunaite

Keywords:

• Dispersion
• functional mutations
• urbanisation
• urban mutations
• social factors.

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