[ΓΦ4500] Specific topics of Geography (5 ECTS credits)

Hagemans, Iris and van Hemert, Patricia and Meerkerk, Joachim and Risselada, Anne and van Winden, Risselada (2020) ABCitiEs Policy Evaluation Report. Research Report. European Union, Brussels.  

Website of the presentation of the project (funded by INTERREG programme) https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/abcities/ 

Municipality of Athens, Action Plan https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/tx_tevprojects/library/file_1599228997.pdf 

Find also conferences and lectures on https://www.youtube.com/@EcoleFrancaisedAthenes

A European research team, headed by Utrecht University is conducting a comparative study in 13 European cities [Athens is one of them]. Research will also be carried out in Toronto (Canada), one of the world’s most diverse cities. Four years from 1 March 2013 to 28 February 2017(European Commission 7th Framework Programme). On 2018-11-26, the project main webpage was blank, but many handbooks were available as workpackages wp: A HANDBOOK FOR GOVERNING HYPER-DIVERSE CITIES https://www.urbandivercities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DIVERCITIES-Handbook-Digital.pdf now on https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316656064_A_Handbook_for_Governing_Hyper-Diverse_Cities || HANDBOOK OF ATHENS (2017) https://www.urbandivercities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Divercities-City-Book-Athens.pdf  || Now, 2021/22, handbooks are no more available on the official project website.  This EU FP7 project closed in 2017. See final report: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/319970/reporting (2017).

... in Paris and the Ile-de-France region, London and Athens through real and virtual walks. The project was devised as part of the European Union's Culture 2000 program, A.R.V.H.A. (Association for Research on the City and Habitat), the project's French co-ordinator, in collaboration with British architects and academics from A.T.A.P. (Anne Thorne Partnership Architects) and Greek architects from OMADA 80 architects and planners consultants, Sotiris Papadopoulos, Architect. Athens (English) http://www.culture2000.tee.gr/ATHENS/ENGLISH/main2.html  Athènes (Français) http://www.culture2000.tee.gr/ATHENS/FRENCH/main2.html              

The project (funded by EC Horizon 2020 see https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/727058), in continuity of DIVERCITIES, ended in 2021. Greece was of the case studies: https://www.cohsmo.aau.dk/index.php/greece/  Selected areas, all in Attica: The central Municipality of Athens (located in the centre of Attica Basin), the suburban Municipality of Pallini (located in the north-eastern suburban zone) and the rural Municipality of Marathon (located in the north-eastern “periphery” of the region of Attica). See here documents. || COHSMO final handbook is dowloadable at https://build.dk/Pages/COHSMO.aspx 

Eight-part podcast series produced for "This is Athens - Athens visitor's Guide" (of which the link is here given) with Sofka Zinovieff, British anthopologist, journalist, author. the podcasts can be accessed from https://soundcloud.com/user-46820274-209698857/sets/athens-unpacked 

"Rethink Athens is a vision for the redesign of the inner city of Athens. It was developed by OKRA Landscape Architects and won first place in a competition held by the Onassis Foundation. The OKRA vision for Athens provided a multi-disciplinary redesign that accounted for traffic flows, cultural and social exchange, and enhanced sustainability using green and blue technologies."

"Together with OKRA Landscape architects (Utrecht, NL) and Werner Sobek Green Technologies (Stuttgart, D), the ENVI-met team analyzed the capacity of the OKRA design proposal to improve air temperature, thermal comfort and building energy usage within the city of Athens."

The ISTOPOL research project investigates apartment blocks in Athens as locales of social and ethnic cohabitation, but also of segregation among the different social and eth[n]ic groups of their residents. 

FAIRVILLE: Facing inequalities and democratic challenges through co-production in cities. see https://www.fairville-eu.org/ 

"Mapping the Commons of Athens[1] took place at the end of 2010, at the year when Greece started losing its financial independence. (...) Inspired by the thought of Hardt and Negri, the workshop ‘Mapping the Commons, Athens’ aimed to study and empower these emerging forms of resistance, by focusing on the city’s most significant wealth, its commons."

"Athens Naked Truth" is a campaign that aims at:
a) raising awareness on the subtle promotion of discrimination and inequality on the one hand, and
b) highlighting how community, solidarity and sisterhood can be the key in creating collective solutions and proposing concrete alternatives to the existing normalisation and institutionalisation of violence.

The booklet: results of the Athens Naked Truth: Counter-Cartography Workshop https://interaliaproject.com/event/athens-naked-truth-a-counter-cartography-workshop/ 

Commonspace is recognised as "a network of experts and scientists involved in Urban and Spatial planning and Environmental Management, combining research work and study projects." "So far, the network has collaborated with Universities, Educational Institutions, Public Benefit Institutions, Municipalities, Regional Governments, NGOs and various Enterprises."

"Commonspace has created a specifically structured methodology and a set of tools regarding Participatory Planning of Public Space. Our main goal is to promote and empower Participatory Planning as a design paradigm that emphasizes involving the entire community in the strategic and management processes of public space planning."

article written by Chiara Lucchini, UIA-expert for the Cultural H.ID.RA.N.T. program, and it first appeared in the UIA-Initiative EU website here.

Scenes of Water - Water and the City - Water Flaneurs, Halandri

Article dans la revue GEO avec AFP Publié le 15/02/2025 à 7h24

PARTNERS Lead Partner : Chalandri - Greece | Elche - Spain  | Roeselare - Belgium | Rome - Italy | Serpa - Portugal | Sombor - Serbia 

Hydro-Heritage Cities network that collaborates on adapting the know-how of the Urban Innovative Actions project Cultural H.ID.RA.N.T. in diverse local contexts. Building on Chalandri’s integrated, participatory approach, the network draws inspiration from the revitalisation of a still-functioning Roman aqueduct, which was re-integrated into urban life. Hydro-Heritage Cities aims to test and refine this model as a prototype for regenerating cultural heritage sites linked to water in a sustainable, community-driven way, while also addressing climate change challenges and strengthening citizens' sense of belonging and ownership.

Through this Portal HEAL-Link members have full-text access to journals, e-books and to bibliographic databases. HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY Library and Informational Center is member of the network.

TDL hosts various publications (printed or non-printed), journals, conference proceedings etc. of primarily geological interest.

provides open access to scholarly eJournals, eBooks and eProceedings, as well as a range of integrated publishing services to the country's academic community.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.

The Central Catalogue of the second most important Library of Greece, the Library of the Hellenic Parliament http://library.parliament.gr, is from now displayed on the platform OpenABEKT of the National Documentation Centre - EKT (source: EKT, Press Release, 2018-04-25)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

The GRISSH aggregates, documents, stores, preserves access to authoritative Greek scientific publications. Search by Subject, Author, Journal, Publisher. (need to be updated - It seems cold ~2014 - 2015, when the website was released).

Free access given from HUA networks through HEALlink -  Index, abstract & full-text  - Physical Sciences and Engineering | Life Sciences | Health Sciences | Social Sciences and Humanities

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

"BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library."

"We are indexing the metadata of all kinds of academically relevant resources – journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. – which provide an OAI interface and use OAI-PMH for providing their contents."

Ouvert au public en septembre [2017], le site internet trilingue (arabe, FR, EN - en developpement)  Bibliothèques d’Orient est le résultat d’un travail de coopération entre la Bibliothèque nationale de France et huit institutions partenaires implantées à Alexandrie, Le Caire, Jérusalem, Beyrouth, Damas et Istanbul. Ces bibliothèques ont numérisé et mis en commun une sélection de leurs fonds patrimoniaux.

...Les documents témoignent des relations entre l’Orient et la France entre 1798 et 1945... for more see presentation http://lettre-gallica.bnf.fr/bibliotheques-orient

Electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences. Four platforms: BOOKS | JOURNALS | BLOGS | EVENTS

OpenAIRE is a network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals that support Open Access policies. It goes beyond the traditional publications aggregator by interconnecting entities related to scholarly communication (publications, research data, funding, people, organizations, data sources) allowing users to navigate alongside a rich information space graph and provides a wide range of services, from deposition to statistics. -

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Available on-line by subscription. - Research fields: science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Access to full content for free depends on the HUA Library & Informational Center's subscription

IDEAS is based on RePEc, it indexes over 4,100,000 items of research, including over 3,700,000 that can be downloaded in full text.

RePEc is a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics which includes bibliographic metadata from over 2,000 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets. IDEAS is just one of several services that use RePEc data. For some statistics about the holdings on this site, see here.

The site is an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS from 1972 to 2015, including the IGB ( INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY / BIBLIOGRAPHIE GEOGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONALE - for IGU | UGI)

"PubMed® comprises more than 34 million citations [and abstracts] for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books." Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require or request their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.

Érudit provides access to many document collections in the social sciences and humanities: journals, books and proceedings, theses, and research reports. 

"Érudit is a Pan-Canadian interuniversity consortium comprised of Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and Université du Québec à Montréal. [It is] funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture, and as of 2014,[it is] recognized as a major scientific initiative by the Canada Foundation for Innovation

Platform developed by the Hellenic National Documentation Centre (EKT) which aims to provide open access to scholarly eJournals, eBooks and eProceedings, and deploy a range of integrated publishing services for the Greek academic community.

Historein is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal published biannually by the Cultural and Intellectual History Society (Athens). It is both historical and interdisciplinary in its perspective. It is thus situated within a scholarly “free trade" zone that encourages the interaction between history, philosophy, social anthropology, sociology, gender and labour studies, epistemology, literary and cultural studies.... [more on https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historein ]

Leventis, P., 2013. Walls of Crisis: Street Art and Urban Fabric in Central Athens, 2000–2012. Architectural Histories, 1(1), p.Art. 19. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ah.ar

Research centre on contemporary Greece and Cyprus. It engages in a range of activities, including developing and supporting academic and policy-related research; organisation of conferences, seminars and workshops; academic exchange through visiting fellowships and internships; as well as teaching at the graduate level through LSE's European Institute.

Three main areas of research within the geographical contexts of Greece (and Cyprus), Southeast Europe and the European Union: Public policy, policy processes and political economy | International relations and foreign and security policy | Economic geography and regional integration

The Hellenic Observatory is affiliated to two other units at the European Institute LSEE- Research on South-Eastern Europe and Contemporary Turkish Studies, while in 2011 it expanded its coverage to include Cyprus.

Publishes the GreeSE - Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe (see Journals)

Kira Kaurinkoski, « La migration de retour des Grecs d’ex-Union soviétique en Grèce. Réflexions sur les logiques diasporiques d’exclusion et d’appartenance », Revue européenne des migrations internationales [En ligne], vol. 37 - n°3 et 4 | 2021,  225-250. mis en ligne le 01 janvier 2024, consulté le 08 novembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/remi/19410 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.19410 

Kira Kaurinskoski is conducting research since many years on Greek populations establishing in Greece from former soviet republics, see, i.a 2003 "Les Grecs de Mariupol (Ukraine). Réflexions sur une identité en diaspora" https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.379

Pratsinakis, M. Ethnic return migration, exclusion and the role of ethnic options: ‘Soviet Greek’ migrants in their ethnic homeland and the Pontic identity. Nations and Nationalism. 2021; 27: 497– 512. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12706

Oikonomou, maria. “The Greek Urban Block since the establishment of the Greek State in 19th Century – a chronicle about morphology and urban Form”. In Carola Hein (ed.) International Planning History Society Proceedings, 17th IPHS Conference, History-Urbanism-Resilience, TU Delft 17-21 July 2016, V.02 p.413, TU Delft Open, 2016 [online] available in open access from https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/iphs/article/view/1250 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7480/iphs.2016.2.1250 

KOUSIS Maria, CHATZIDAKI Aspasia & KAFETSIOS Konstantinos (eds) (2022), Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crise. The Case of Greece. Springer Cham, IMISCOE Research Series XXIII, 319 p. [e-book] available in open access  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11574-5

Dossier thématique coordonné par MALOUTAS Thomas, POLYZOU Iris & RIVIERE Dominique, dans la revue BCH moderne et contemporain (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain) vol. 7 (2022) https://doi.org/10.4000/bchmc.1069 

DARQUES Régis, SIDIROPOULOS George & KALABOKIDIS Kostas (2024), The Geography of Greece Managing Crises and Building Resilience, Springer (book series: World Regional Geography Book Series - WRGBS).

With English subtitles. Available until We. 30.04/2025 23:59 - Directed byMarina Danezi

The documentary "SPLENDID CITY - Athens Urban Stories" highlights the unwritten story of the capital. Men and women, ordinary people and iconic personalities, restless artists and hard workers, young and not so young ones, authentic urban residents and internal emigrants, locals and refugees, share their stories, their various perspectives, their minor or major achievements and their special signs of communication in the common urban environment.

'Imagining Greece' is an evolving research-based exhibition that explores how social, political, and cultural forces have shaped Greece's image as a tourist destination.