''Costis Hadjimichalis'' is a Greekradical urban planner, economic geographer, author, and academic. Hadjimichalis is former Professor economic geography and regional planning and Head of the Department at Harokopio University of Athens. He is known for his work from a Marxist perspective on uneven geographical development in economic geography, urban planning, and regional development with a specific focus on Greece, the EU, and Southern Europe. He is editor of the Greek academic journal ''Geographies'' and section editor for Regional Development of the ''International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography'', Elsevier. From 1983 to 2013, he was co-organizer of the ''International Aegean Seminars'', a forum for radical ideas on geography and planning. Hadjimichalis graduated with an engineering degree from The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1968, then an M.A. in urban planning (1976) and a Ph.D. in Economic Geography and Urban Planning (1980) from UCLA.
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