Spatium

Aims & Scope

SPATIUM covers a large number of general and specific issues within the respective realms of regional and urban planning, architecture (architectural design, architectural theory and architectural history), housing, building, geodesy, and environment, both at theoretical and empirical (practical) level, with a view to better theoretical understanding of current spatial and urban development processes and to improve the practice in the field.

Also, a number of other issues, paralleling the main themes, have been addressed in the articles published in the journal, viz., sustainable development, protection of natural and cultural heritage, metropolitan planning and governance, regional competitiveness, economic strategic development, correspondence between public and private interests in planning, information support to planning (GIS support, WEB-base support to urban and spatial planning, spatial and urban development indicators, environmental indicators, etc.), tourism development, planning evaluation, planning education, demography, social development and social cohesion, cooperation in the Balkans and cross-border planning cooperation, institutional and organisational support to planning, land use planning and management, landscape planning, water management, strategic thinking, research and governance/planning, territorial cohesion, climate changes, regional economic planning, urban sprawl, risk management, and more.

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This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Land use planning for sustainable development of peri-urban zones

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Jelena, Tijana, Igor

• Urban sprawl in Iranian cities and its differences with the western sprawl

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Houshmand

• Urban form and planning in the information age: Lessons from literature

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Da-Mi, Zorica

• Impact of overtourism on urban life

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Maja, Natasa, Nebojsa

• The search for a new development planning/policy mode: Problems of expertise in the transition period

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Miodrag

• Collapse of strategic thinking, research and governance in Serbia and possible role of the spatial plan of the Republic of Serbia (2010) in its renewal

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Miodrag

• Land use transport interaction models: Application perspectives for the city of Thessaloniki

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Georgia

• Transformation of the New Belgrade urban tissue: Filling the space instead of interpolation

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Igor, Ana, Bozidar

• How do passenger and trip attributes affect walking distances to bus public transport stops? Evidence from university students in Greece

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Christos, Socrates, Georgios

• Endogenous growth theory and regional development policy

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Slobodan, Milorad, Miroljub, Dusko