Planning, the Urban System and New Forms of Inequality in Greek Cities

by L. Tsoulouvisa, Lefteris Tsoulouvis

Paperback. This paper examines Greece's urban system in relationship to economic restructuring, socio-spatial inequalities and planning policies. Chapter one reviews the reasons for the recent rekindled interest of spatial analysis in cities and questions the capacity of the discourse on globalisation to deal with local peculiarities. Chapter two examines patterns of diffused urbanisation in Greece and the fragmentation of the settlement system; stability and change in the urban hierarchy; urban growth trends; and planning response to change during the last four decades. The next chapter focuses on deindustrialisation in Greece, regional inequalities, social change in the last decade, and new forms of poverty and social exclusion. Chapter four examines patterns of social stratification and inequality, as well as social change, by subregion of the country and in 441 municipalities. Principal components and cluster analysis are the main techniques used. Con

80 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 1998