the aim of this international conference the third of its type was to survey recent developments in geometric topology and shape theory with an emphasis on their interaction. the volume contains original research papers and carefully selected survey of currently active areas. the main topics and themes represented by the papers of this volume include decomposition theory, cell-like mappings and ce-equivalent compacta, covering dimension versus cohomological dimension, anrs and lcn-compacta, homology manifolds, embeddings of continua into manifolds, complement theorems in shape theory, approximate fibrations and shape fibrations, fibered shape, exact homologies and strong shape theory.