The International Journal SPATIUM (ISSN: 1450-569X; eISSN: 2217-8066) 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, regional strategic planning and governance, etc. It attempts to contribute to better theoretical understanding of a new spatial development processes and to improve the practice in the field. The journal was established in 1997 (first issue of September 1997), and has been published regularly ever since by the Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia (IAUS) from Belgrade, Serbia. SPATIUM is published half-yearly, as from 2009. Its publishing is supported by the financial sources from the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia. Contributions to SPATIUM, including summaries, are submitted in English. SPATIUM applies double-blind anonymous reviewing process. Submitted articles, which pass the initial office review, undergo a reviewing process by two expert reviewers appointed by Editorial staff, with the exception of professional paper, in which case one reviewer is appointed. In the case the submitted article received one positive and one negative (disparate) review, Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editor appoints a third reviewer. All reviewers of the submitted articles act independently and they are not aware of each other’s identities. The journal SPATIUM publishes original papers that have not been published previously, within the following categories: Original scientific paper, Review paper, Preliminary report-Short Communication, Scientific analysis or debate, and Professional paper. In the case of disparate assessment of the category of the articles evaluated by the reviewers, the decision on the proper category which the article would belong to rests on the Editor-in-Chief of SPATIUM.

SPATIUM is indexed in: SCOPUS, EBSCO, SCImago, DOAJ. Full text available at: doiSerbia, SCIndeks, Academic Journals Database, IAUS web page, etc. Digital copies of the journal are archived in the Digital Repository of the National Library of Serbia.

The journal does not charge any fees at submission, reviewing, and production stages.

Journal SPATIUM is an Open Access journal. All articles of SPATIUM can be downloaded free of charge, by interested parties, and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA) 4.0 License which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided it is given appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provided a link to the Creative Commons License, and indicated if changes were made. In case the changes were made to the original work or it is to be incorporated in the new unit, the new publication has to be shared under the same license. Authors retain Copyright and grant the journal SPATIUM right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 License. This Copyright has been applied as starting from the year 2025 and No. 53 of the journal SPATIUM. Prior to the No. 53, all its articles had Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY NC ND).

The journal SPATIUM allows authors to deposit printed/published version of submitted article, either in an institutional repository or a non-commercial subject-based repositories, at the choice of authors.

Starting from the year 2025 and No. 53 of SPATIUM, all reviewed manuscripts undergo detection and additional check on plagiarism through the iThenticate service (Professional Plagiarism Prevention).

Any paper which shows obvious signs of plagiarism or auto-plagiarism will be automatically rejected.

More details on the published issues of SPATIUM are available on-line from: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/journal.aspx?issn=1450-569X