1. INTRODUCTION: Concepts, definitions, characteristics of cities, basic functions and development of cities.
2. INTRODUCTION: Historical development of cities.
3. URBANIZATION : Consequences of urbanization, Sociological approaches to urbanization, urbanization and economic development, congestion costs and optimal size of cities,
4. URBANIZATION: The stages of urbanization, modern forms of urban development, urbanization in Greece.
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6. TRANSPORTATION COST AND SPACE: Accessibility, population potential, transport cost and distance, transport cost, distance and means of transport, choice of business location in a one-dimensional model.
7. BUSINESS LOCATION: The von Thünen's theory, mathematical and graphical expression, von Thünen's model with two and three products, land uses based on von Thünen's model, changes to von Thünen's model.
8. BUSINESS SETTING: Weber's theory - minimum cost approach, equilibrium input curve, the spatial interdependence approach – market area analysis,
9. BUSINESS SETTING: Smith's approach – spatial cost curves, behavioral approaches, Pred's diagram, economies of concentration and business positioning, product life cycle and business positioning, the Marxist approaches.
10. BUSINESS LOCATION: Comparative analysis of approaches, positioning factors, quantitative analysis of positioning with linear models.
11. SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SETTLEMENTS: Spatial concentration economies, types of spatial concentration economies, urbanization economies, internal economies and returns to scale, external economies, concentration disadvantages, factors creating spatial concentration economies, clusters of businesses.
12. SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SETTLEMENTS: Christaller's central location approach, Cristaller's model of the urban system, application of the Cristaller model in Greece, Lösch's central location approach, creation of a market area of two or more competing businesses, the demand cone according to Lösch.
13. THE SIZE AND HIERARCHY OF CITIES: The size of cities and their growth,  growth of cities, population distribution of settlements in Greece, city size and cost of living, city size , patterns of distribution of cities according to their population, the size order rule, the pattern of the capital city.

URBAN LAND USES: Competition in the urban land market by sector of activity, the pattern of residential rent offers, competition in the urban land market by sector of activity, distribution of urban land by activity, distribution of urban land between different sectors, distribution of urban land for housing among different income groups (with or without a high preference for access to the center), environmental problems and housing rent supply pattern, urban growth and property value change, monocentric and polycentric cities.

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