[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

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. 

"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/ 

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

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."

(Website of Konstantinos Markos | PhD Candidate, SRSGE, NTUA - National Technical University of Athens, GR). WORK IN PROGRESS. Explore the geography of the Athens Metropolitan Area with interactive maps and data. Here you’ll find layers on administrative boundaries, transportation networks, environment, energy and population statistics — all in one place. 

The first issue of this journal was released in 1986, and until the vol. 17 Historicogeographica was diplayed only in printed version. From the vol. 16-17 (2018) the journal is now available on-line at the above mentioned link. Languages of the journal Greek, English. 

"Cefael est une bibliothèque numérique regroupant l'intégralité des ouvrages publiés par l'École française d'Athènes depuis 1877. C'est le premier portail de publications électroniques sur les études grecques : plus de 500 volumes, soit 250.000 pages. Cefael constitue un patrimoine scientifique de plus de 150 ans de recherches sur le monde grec, une somme de recherches produites dans la grande tradition de l'érudition réunissant plus de 1100 auteurs."

Depuis 1877, le Bulletin de correspondance hellénique rend compte de la recherche scientifique sur la Grèce ancienne, de la préhistoire à l’époque byzantine, dans les domaines de l’archéologie, de l’histoire et de l’épigraphie. Publié par l’École française d’Athènes, le Bulletin est semestriel. Les volumes 1877 à 2010 sont disponibles sur Persée.

Published since 1877 by the École française d’Athènes, BCH presents twice a year articles on Ancient Greece and Byzantine world, focused in archaeology, history and epigraphy. From 1877 to 2010, the journal is available online on Persée.

"Créé en 2019 par l’École française d’Athènes, le Bulletin de correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain se veut le prolongement, pour les époques moderne et contemporaine, du Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Exclusivement électronique, transdisciplinaire et internationale, la revue, semestrielle, est consacrée à l’espace de la Méditerranée orientale et des Balkans, aire culturelle carrefour marquée par l’influence des empires byzantin, ottoman, vénitien mais aussi coloniaux." Disponible sur https://journals.openedition.org || Created in 2019 by the French School of Athens, the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain completes the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Exclusively electronic and transdisciplinary, the journal publishes twice a year the results of research devoted to the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan space, a cross-cultural area marked by the influence of Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman but also colonial empires.

Depuis 1876, la Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome (BEFAR) publie les thèses des membres (doctorat et habilitation à diriger des recherches) des deux institutions athénienne et romaine. || Since 1876, the collection "Library of the École française d’Athènes et de Rome (BEFAR) publishes the theses of the members (doctorates and ‘habilitation’ theses to supervise research) of the two Athenian and Roman institutions.

Founded in 1977 as the scientific journal of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies. NOT in open access. Displayed with chronological embargo.

(Fields: Greek archaeology, art, epigraphy, history, materials science, ethnography, and literature, from earliest prehistoric times onward. Available in both print and electronic formats.) ASCSA "the oldest and largest U.S. overseas research center. A consortium of nearly 200 affiliated North American colleges and universities, the School provides graduate students and scholars a base for the advanced study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present day."

I picked up this publication related to some ignore aspects of the archaeology in Greece: KOURELIS Kostis, "Byzantium and the Avant-Guarde. Excavations at Corinth 1920s-1930s", Hesperia 76 (2007), pp. 391-442, [on-line]  available from https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/publications/hesperia (downloadable at https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/25068026.pdf)

L’Institut français de Grèce, l’École française d’Athènes et l’Institut de recherches historiques de la Fondation nationale de la recherche scientifique organisent, avec la participation des éditions Anavasi, une journée d’étude consacrée à l’« Expédition scientifique française de Morée», qui s’est déroulée dans le Péloponnèse en 1829. Près de 200 ans après cette Expédition emblématique, l’objectif de la journée d’étude est de commémorer et de commenter l’important travail accompli, d’explorer les retombées scientifiques des recherches sur le terrain, mais aussi leur impact sur les approches interdisciplinaires et touristiques actuelles dans la région. Programme: https://www.efa.gr/events/revisiter-lexpedition-francaise-scientifique-de-moree/

Videos des sessions, v. YouTube, Institut français de Grèce channel  https://www.youtube.com/@GallikoInstitouto/videos  10 videos

https://moree1829.gr/  

ISSN: 1792-1341 || Impact Factor: 1.2 || Scimago Journal @ Ranking: 2019:347/679(Geography) || © The European Association of Geographers || Supports Open Access || Editor-in-Chief: Kostis Koutsopoulos || Until now available from: http://eurogeojournal.eu/

New announcement: The website of European Journal of Geography will be replaced by the new OJS based portal   https://ojs.eurogeojournal.eu/index.php/egj 

POULOPOULOU Maria (2015), Modern Greek Grammar Notes for Absolute Beginners. A User-friendly Grammar for Levels A1/A2, [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4393 

...a course provided for free by Kypros-Net in collaboration with the CyBC to teach the modern Greek language online

"The complete conjugations of around 1,000 modern Greek verbs for free. Each verb has been fully conjugated in all tenses and is representative of each type and model of every modern Greek verb."

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.