Year: 2024
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The growth and development of urban areas became an important topic in recent decades, not only in the field of planning and spatial research, but also in the processes of decision-making and creation of policy and strategy.This paper analyzes spatial changes and development trends in North Macedonia's four largest urban morphological areas-Skopje-Kumanovo, Bitola, Prilep, and Tetovo-Gostivar-utilizing data from the Urban Atlas provided by the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.The Urban Atlas contains geospatial data on population size and land use patterns.The study provides conceptual frameworks to improve territorial development policies and methodology for creating spatial and urban planning documents.By integrating geospatial data with a focus on enhancing strategies for managing territorial development, this research contributes to improvement spatial planning practices and may represent basis for further research in this fields.The aim of the paper is to detect current state and determine main perspectives for sustainable urban and spatial development in North Macedonia.
DOI: 10.37658/mgd24119gp
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4403944404