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SPATIUM International Review No. 21, December 2009, Belgrade ISSN 1450-569X SCOPE AND AIMS The review is concerned with a multi-disciplinary approach to spatial, regional and urban planning and architecture, as well as with various aspects of land use, including housing, environment and related themes and topics. It attempts to contribute to better theoretical understanding of a new spatial development processes and to improve the practice in the field. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Miodrag Vujošević, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia VICE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jasna Petrić, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia SECRETARY Tamara Maričić, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia EDITORIAL BOARD Branislav Bajat, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia; Milica Bajić Brković, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia; Tijana Crnčević, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia; Kaliopa Dimitrovska Andrews, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Simin Davoudi, Newcastle University, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle, UK; Zeynep Enlil, Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, Istanbul, Turkey; Milorad Filipović; University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics, Belgrade, Serbia; Panagiotis Getimis, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Dept. Economic and Regional Development, Athens, Greece, and University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; Grigoris Kafkalas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Spatial Development and Research Unit-SDRU, Thessaloniki, Greece; Douglas Kysar, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA; Luigi Mazza, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Planning, Milano, Italy; Nada Milašin, Belgrade, Serbia; Saša Milijić, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia; Bernhard Müller, Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung, Dresden, Germany; Zorica Nedović-Budić, University College Dublin, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, Dublin, Ireland; Ksenija Petovar, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Geography, Belgrade, Serbia; Vesna Popović, Institute of Agricultural Economics - IAE, Belgrade, Serbia; Mila Pucar, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia; Karl Peter Schön, Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Bonn, Germany; Wilfried Schönbäck, Institute of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, Technical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Paolo Tomasella, Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine, Italy; Dragutin Tošić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Belgrade, Serbia; Dobrivoje Tošković, Belgrade, Serbia; and Slavka Zeković, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia. PUBLISHING COUNCIL Mila Pucar, President, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia Jasna Petrić, Vice President, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia Tamara Maričić, Secretary, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia Branislav Bajat, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia; Milica Bajić Brković, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia; Dragana Bazik, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia; Branka Dimitrijević, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK; Milorad Filipović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics, Belgrade, Serbia; Igor Marić, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia; Darko Marušić, Belgrade, Serbia; Nada Milašin, Belgrade, Serbia; Saša Milijić, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia; Zorica Nedović-Budić, University College Dublin, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, Dublin, Ireland; Marija Nikolić, Belgrade, Serbia; Vladimir Papić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia; Ratko Ristić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia; Nenad Spasić, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia; Božidar Stojanović, Institute for the Development of Water Resources “Jaroslav Černi”, Belgrade, Serbia; Borislav Stojkov, Republic of Serbia Republic Spatial Planning Agency, Belgrade, Serbia; Dragutin Tošić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Belgrade, Serbia; Miodrag Vujošević, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia; and Slavka Zeković, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia. PROOF READING AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION REVIEWING COMMITTEE Chris Prickett, Ljiljana Nikolić, Jelena Milićević Kaliopa Dimitrovska Andrews, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic COMPUTER DESIGN of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Nenad Đajić, Belgrade, Serbia; Jelena Živanović Miljković, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia Dejan Đorđević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, COVER PAGE DESIGN Belgrade, Serbia; Miroljub Hadžić, University Singidunum, Business Ines Maričić, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia Faculty, Belgrade, Serbia; Ksenija Petovar, University of Belgrade, PUBLISHER Faculty of Geography and Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia; Jasna Petrić, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia; Borislav Stojkov, Republic of Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia, IAUS Serbia Republic Spatial Planning Agency, Belgrade, Serbia; Nenad Spasić, Director Aleksandra Stupar, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, ADDRESS Belgrade, Serbia; Dragutin Tošić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia, IAUS Geography, Belgrade, Serbia; Dobrivoje Tošković, Belgrade, Serbia; "Spatium" Miodrag Vujošević, IAUS, Belgrade, Serbia; and Slavka Zeković, IAUS, Serbia, 11000 Belgrade, Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 73/II, tel: (381 11) 3370-091 Belgrade, Serbia fax: (381 11) 3370-203, e-mail: [email protected], web address: www.iaus.ac.rs FINANCIAL SUPPORT Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia Printed in Serbia by Planeta print, d.o.o., Belgrade Number of copies: 300 spatium C O N T E N T S SPATIUM International Review No. 21, December 2009, Belgrade Miodrag Vujošević Editorial Jasna Petrić SCIENTIFIC PAPERS 1-10 Dimitris Kallioras, Tracing the determinants of economic cross-border interaction in the Lefteris Topaloglou, European Union Stefanos Venieris 11-18 Dimitris Foutakis, Towards re-reforming the EU cohesion policy: key issues in the debate and Elisavet Thoidou some thoughts on peripheral regions 19-26 Ljiljana Vasilevska, Strategic planning as a regional development policy mechanism – European Milanka Vasić context 27-38 Slavka Zeković Regional competitiveness and territorial industrial development in Serbia 39-52 Marija Maksin-Mićić, Spatial and environmental planning of sustainable regional development in Saša Milijić, Serbia Marina Nenković-Riznić 53-65 Nenad Spasić, Managing spatial development in zones undergoing major structural changes Vesna Jokić, Tamara Maričić 66-75 Dejana Nedučin, Influences of gentrification on identity shift of an urban fragment - a case Olga Carić, study Vladimir Kubet 76-83 Lana Slavuj, Emergence of problem areas in the urban structure of post-socialist Zagreb Marin Cvitanović, Vedran Prelogović spatium EDITORIAL A new series of the international scientific journal SPATIUM has been launched. While this issue consists of papers that cover a variety of topics that will be discussed at the International scientific conference „Regional development, spatial planning and strategic governance“, which is organised by the Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia (IAUS) in December 2009 in Belgrade, Serbia, the following issues of the journal will be structured according to particular themes outlined in two or three year’s editorial programme which will soon be communicated for collegial discussion. Miodrag Vujošević Jasna Petrić spatium SPATIUM International Review UDK 339.92(4); 061.1EU No. 21, December 2009, p. 1-10 Original scientific paper TRACING THE DETERMINANTS OF ECONOMIC CROSS-BORDER INTERACTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Dimitris Kallioras1, University of Thessaly, Department of Planning and Regional Development & Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Department of Tourism Enterprises Lefteris Topaloglou, University of Thessaly, Department of Planning and Regional Development & Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Department of Finance-Investment Applications Stefanos Venieris, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia (Kastoria Branch), Department of Public Relations The abolition of the artificial impediments of cross-border interaction inside the European Union, has released dynamics that have influenced significantly the economic space at the frontiers. In contrast, at the European Union external borders, the constraints concerning cross-border interaction with third countries have become more tangible in the sphere of reality. Under this framework, a new mix of opportunities and the threats seems to come forth together with a new political, social and economic map that redefines the notion of vicinity. In the present article, the study of the “border effect” in Europe is attempted through the investigation of the basic determinants of the spatial dynamics of cross-border interaction. The findings of the article contribute to the better understanding of the “border effect” with significant implications for both theory and policy. Key words: borders, interaction, integration, vicinity, trade, investment, migration movement of people, goods, and capital, have extremely important geopolitical and economic INTRODUCTION1 been vanished, the asymmetries at the level of procedures have accentuated the need for The abolition of border impediments the historical image, the culture, the language processed spatial policies regarding borders. concerning the movement of people and and the perceptions remain important. Suffice it to