The emergence over the last 30–40 years of what is variously termed edge city, edgeless,
and postsuburban development in North America and elsewhere raises a set of challenges …

This paper explores potential future land use/cover (LUC) dynamics in the Attica region,
Greece, under three distinct economic performance scenarios. During the last decades …

Competitiveness appears as a new element in the specific dynamics of the Mediterranean
city. This paper explores the process of competitiveness at the local level, and the …

Urban mobility infrastructures are crucial in connecting people to a city and the prospects it
provides. Through a critical review of literature on growth of cities in South Asia, transport …

The present study investigates the relation between urban form and the socio‐economic
patterns of the resident population in three southern E uropean cities (A thens, L isbon and …

Metropolitan growth in Europe has resulted in drastic changes of urban forms, socio-spatial
structures and land-use patterns due to sequential processes of urbanization …

Mono-centric regions have experienced a progressive transformation towards polycentric
structures. Transition to discontinuous and dispersed spatial configurations was particularly …

The emerging postcrisis geographies in Southern Europe are intrinsically related to debt
and dispossession. In Spain, mortgage homeownership and indebtedness led to housing …

The relationship between form and function in E uropean M editerranean cities has been
widely addressed from various perspectives. A number of studies indicate that, until the …

The transition from fast spontaneous urbanisation in southern Europe, with popular
squatting as a form of civil disobedience, to 'new social movements'(NSMs) for democratic …