Transformation of service network in the Bratislava's hinterland region

Abstract

The paper analyses the influence of the transformation process of Slovak sociate and economy after 1989. It focused the attention on hinterland region of Bratislava (Pezinok district) and measured the changes in service network of rural settlements. Evidence of transformation of service facilities in rural settlements of Pezinok district was followed according the change of the number of service facilities in 1989, then in 1995 and finally in 2002. The subject of the research were facilities including: grocery stores, restaurants and fast refreshments, shops, public services, education, healthcare, culture, church and sport. In these categories the fastest development was in the selected time span recorded in the sphere of not specified public services for costumers. In common the development of service network in rural settlements resulted in increasing living standards of its inhabitants and beside it also in granting profound economic base of villages. They are not only "bedrooms" of worker in large cities. This can be one of the ways for sustainable development of villages