Urban development in east prefecture of attica greece, social and economic changes during the summer of the year 2004

الملخص EN

The aim of this study is to examine how urban development has affected the social and economic life in four specific semi-rural regions, which are located in the east prefecture of Attica in Greece.

These semi-rural regions were affected significantly by social and economic changes, because of substantial new infrastructure development that took place related to a major urban plan development for Attica during the year of 2004.

The effect of urban development on the characteristics of residents and local entrepreneurship along with land use changes was examined.

The results showed that that there has been a substantial population increase and residential land has increased at the expense of farmland.

In addition, relevant results were deducted from the logistic regression models.