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

Council of Europe, Directorate General of Democracy and Political Affairs, Directorate of Democratic Institutions. Series:  Structure and operation of local and regional democracy. - The publication takes into account the "Law 3852/2010 (OG 87 A) ”New architecture of Decentralised Administration and Self-government – the Kallikrates Programme” restructuring the administrative organisation of the country for first and second level local government (municipalitiesand regions) and establishing seven Decentralised Administration Authorities as single decentralised state administration units, which automatically and without any further formality enjoy all the rights and responsibilities /obligations of the abolished regions."

Local and regional democracy in Greece   CG/2015(28)8FINAL  26 March 2015

Monitoring Committee, rapporteurs: Artur TORRES PEREIRA, Portugal (L, EPP/CCE), Gudrun MOSLER-TÖRNSTRÖM, Austria (R, SOC), Recommendation 372 (2015) 2   Explanatory memorandum 5

Scenes of water | Water and the City | Water Flaneurs - Halandri

"A growing collection of interactive maps exploring water as a cultural resource at a time of climate change."

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.

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.

European Middle Class Mass Housing COST Action. "The short documentary presents a small selection of the interviews that have been conducted within the research program. It is a short and selective story of antiparochi that arises on the one hand through the personal and subjective views, narratives and memories of the ‘protagonists’ of the phenomenon and on the other hand through the views of antiparochi’s scholars, focusing on the case of Athens." (Prof. Th. Maloutas, [currently emeritus])

CHALKIAS Christos et al. (2016)

Coordinated by [now emeritus] Prof. Kostis Hadjimichalis, a team of scientists promotes the subject of Radical Geography to Greek academic and to general public, primarily through organizing seminars in Radical Geography and Political Economy with participation of university academics. Seminars are conducted in Greek but also in the (foreign) language of the guest from abroad. The videos of the edition 2021 which was on-line due to covid-19 pandemic restrictions, are availble on the FB account of "Radical Geography Notebooks". Here is the link of the FB account.

Some of the participants from abroad: David Harvey – CUNY New York, USA| Erik Swyngedouw - University of Manchester|

Coordinated by (now emeritus) Prof. Kostis Hadjimichalis, a team of scientists promotes the subject of Radical Geography to Greek academic and to general public, primarily through organizing seminars in Radical Geography and Political Economy with participation of university academics from Greece and abroad. Seminars are conducted in Greek but also in the (foreign) language of the guest from abroad. Here is the link to the specific webpage  http://radicalgeography.gr from where videos of the different editions are available (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018).

Some of the participants from abroad: David Harvey – CUNY New York, USA| Mike Edwards - UCL, UK |Nuria Benach - University of Barcelona, Spain | Camille Schmoll – Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, France | Pelin Tan -  Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey| Richard Walker – University of California, Berkeley, USA|  Bernd Bellina – University of Frankfurt, Germany | Ray Hudson – University of Durham, UK| Eric Clark – Lund University, Sweden| 

INDIGO is an inter- and transdisciplinary project, which puts the discussion about shared land uses, land property and use rights within the interdisciplinary context of ownership regimes and the ‘governance of the Commons’. INDIGO partners jointly examine contemporary concepts of land use, ownership and the Commons and ways to govern them. 

History & building: https://athenscitymuseum.gr/en/history-and-buildings/ || Collections: https://athenscitymuseum.gr/en/collections/  ||  the virtual tour of Athens (because the following is not working anymore https://athenscentre.gr/virtual-tour-of-athens-1842/  you can watch the video posted on 2015-11-30, on You Tube's PostScriptum PS channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f13J39neOEc 

see frozen pictures from the app v2,v3 ... in greek  https://athenscitymuseum.gr/apps/1842v2/ | https://www.athenscitymuseum.gr/apps/1842v3/ 

Presentation on OpenEdition.org Hypotheses. Go to Trochoeides Network website

Nikos Moschonas, Historian, Research Director, Institute of Byzantine Research/NHR, excerpt of Preface: "The National Foundation of Research having as main goal to provide the historic continuity of Athens had organised in 1994 a series of twelve tutorials with main issue the Archaeology of Athens. The twelve scholars presented the most crucial and important issues of the history of Athenian urban and suburban space from pre historic times to modern ones. [...] instead of republishing the Foundation decided to make a digital edition of the conference along with important additions to the texts and references from historical sources and pictures. The most important texts are translated in English too. The conference of Archaeology of Athens and the edition were take place under the wing of the programme “Society of Information”.

The project ATHENS WESTERN HILLS was conceived and implemented by the nonprofit society Dipylon, in order to collect historical and cartographic data for the Ηills of the Muses, the Pnyx, and the Nymphs.

The core of ToposText is a very large digital library of classical authors enlivened by linking their work to a database of more than 5000 ancient places, archaeological sites, and museums in Greece or part of the broader Greek cultural world.

Free || Greek - English || Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch || Ages 4+ || © Municipality of Kallithea.

Website of Research group of the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

"TravelTrails is an online database, which indexes, categorizes and analyzes travelers’ accounts in the Eastern Mediterranean from the early sixteenth-century up to 1830. Based on the collections of the Gennadius Library and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, it helps the user to navigate through the diverse and rich historical information contained in travel literature."

The French School at Athens is the first foreign institute established in Greece. Founded in 1846, it is a center of advanced research in humanities whose core mandate is the study of Greece in its Balkan and Mediterranean contexts, from prehistoric time to the present. This mission encompasses the training of a new generation of academics, facilitating early-career researchers’ access to the field and the sources. It supports their integration within a high-level international environment.

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

Place - Monuments - People | Southeastern Europe - Eastern Mediterranean | Greece - Asia Minor - Southern Italy | 15th - 20th century.

"The project assembles for the first time all the rescue excavations carried out in Athens in the last 160 years and covers an area of about 6.7 km² of modern urban space. The bilingual digital platform enables data retrieval from 1,470 excavation sites around two main axes: first, the use of space and second, the dating of the remains (...)." For more, follow the link.

The project is a webGIS platform that displays on a single map the natural features and the multitude of remains of human activity from antiquity to the end of the 19th century, as depicted in the Maps of Attica. It was conceived and implemented by the Dipylon Society.

The 24 sheets of the  Maps of Attica (III–XXVI, 1:25000) were transferred to the digital by making the most of digital humanities technologies, especially Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and web mapping. The webGIS platform embodies a multi-level research program organized around four central axes:

• Synthesis of the thematic content of the Maps of Attica into a single map by classifying the amount of information of the original work into remains of human activity of all kinds.
• Distinguishing the contents on the map into surviving remains and damaged by newer activities.
• Translation into Greek of the Explanatory Text of the Maps of Attica compiled by Ernst Curtius, G. von Alten, and, especially, Arthur Milchhoefer; the text had never before been translated in its entirety into Greek.
• Recording of Attic toponyms.

Par la rédaction de l'INA - Publié le 21.07.2016 - Mis à jour le 14.08.2020.

Ce reportage, réalisé en mars 1967, un mois avant le coup d'état militaire du régime des Colonels... Old reportage,  produced in March 1967, a month before the Colonels' regime's military coup,

see also  Rebetiko 101: A Playlist : https://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2019/03/rebetiko-101-a-playlist/

Kounadis Archive virtual museum https://vmrebetiko.gr/en/d-home-en/

a scientific institute involved since 1930 in the collection, research and documentation of information of oral and written historical tradition, as well as the publication of scientific studies and monographs related to Asia Minor Greeks.