concept of globalization. It is emphasized that cities are the center of spatial transformation where the globalization mostly … effected. The economic and technological developments have caused the fluidity of capital in this manner cities have to bring … presence of cities depends on the renewal of existing potentials according to the changing conditions of today. In this process …

analytical tools that combine GIS and spatial agglomeration analysis based techniques. They can be also employed in order to … enhance appropriate support networks. Territorial and spatial statistics as well as GIS based analyses are applied, using data …

surroundings of big cities) and peripheral ones. These differences refere also to the factors and chances of development - in the … peripheral areas there are little of them. What could help the activation of those areas is the development of some of the cities …. In the area of the authors' interests there are problems of regional politics, 1) Which cities should be supported to …