This book addresses contemporary spatial and socio-economic issues related to the analysis, design, and development of space on medium and large scales - the city and the region.

The authors, all professors or researchers at the Department of Spatial Planning, Urban and Regional Development of the University of Thessaly, analyze critical issues of urban and regional development, such as the increasing importance and complexity of spatial planning in the new competitive environment, contemporary spatial phenomena and transformations of the post-industrial city, spatial planning and design, spatial economies, infrastructure, and sustainable development.

Contents:

Foreword: Athanasios Aravantinos

Introduction
Aspa Gospodini, "The increasing importance and complexity of spatial planning in the new competitive environment"

Spatial phenomena and transformations of the modern city
- Aspa Gospodini, "Post-industrial economies and spatial transformations of cities: Analyzing post-Olympic Athens".
- Thomas Maloutas, "Housing segregation, social polarization, and migration in Athens in the 1990s".
- Alexios Michael Defner, "Cinemas in Greece: Local or global spaces?"

Spatial planning and design
- Dimitris Oikonomou, "Spatial planning systems in the international context today: A comparative overview".
- Konstantinos Lalenis, "From popular assemblies to public-private partnerships: From participatory processes to urban planning in Greece in the last twenty-five years".
- Georgios N. Fotis, "Spatial allocation of public services and urban mobility patterns".
- Ioannis Faraslis, Konstantinos Perakis, "Application of three-dimensional representations and geoinformatics tools in data collection"

Spatial economies, infrastructure, and development
- Panagiotis Artelaris, Angeliki Anagnostou, George Petrakos, "Patterns of regional convergence-divergence: Methodological framework and results".
- George Michailidis, "Competitiveness, space, and development: International literature and Greek reality".
- Serafeim Polyzos, "Exploring the contribution of infrastructure to economic and regional development".
- Pantelis Skagianis, "Small regional airports in a transitional period: Challenges and prospects".

Sustainable spatial development - Demographic and environmental dimensions
- Viron Kotzamanis, Dimitris Stathakis, "The human geography of foreigners (2001): A first depiction of their concentrations, composition, demographic, and economic characteristics in the Greek space".
- Athanasios Koungoulos, "Reuse of treated urban wastewater as a means of sustainable water resource management"