“…When investigating the European framework in terms of urbanity, Poelman (2014, 2012) devised the Degree of Urbanization (DEGURBA), namely a classification that indicates the character of an area, which is based on a combination of geographical contiguity (in particular, the Local Administrative Units of level 2 (LAU 2)) and population density (specifically, the population grid square cells of 1 km2). The DEGURBA classification, whose usefulness is mentioned in several studies (Gibas and Majorek, 2020;Pratesi, et al 2020;Klimanek and Filas-Przybył, 2019;Bartzokas-Tsiompras & Photis, 2019), consists of three categories Poelman, 2014, 2012):…”