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

Central District of Athens (pale yellow) | Northern District of Athens (red) | Western District of Athens (magenta) | Southern District of Athens (green) | District of Eastern Attica (light grey)| District of Western Attica (pink) | District of Piraeus (purple) | District of Islands (including the islands of the Argo-Saronic gulf: Salamina, Aegina, Agkistri, Poros, Hydra, Spetses, and parts on Peloponnesian coast in fron of them, and the island of Kythira (historico-geographically one of the Ionian island) as well (aquamarine).

link to the web page of the State company ATTIKO METRO S.A. with maps of current metro lines in Attica and those planned. Interesting matter for a geographer !

available from http://espon-interstrat.eu/flyers.html > COUNTRY BROCHURES: Current context of integrated territorial development strategic planning

About the project ESPON INTERTSRAT (ended on 30 April 2012, see http://espon-interstrat.eu/integratedstrategies.html

Proceedings:  European spatial planning and landscape, No 99

Corporate Author: : Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (European Commission), European Commission

Subject: economic and social cohesion, EU regional policy, Greece , regional disparity , regional planning , town and country planning

"This report analyses Greek legislation in a number of sectors and identifies about 350 legal provisions which could be removed or amended to lift regulatory barriers to competition. The work undertaken in the project has involved the review of over 1 200 pieces of legislation in these sectors of the economy, using the OECD Competition Assessment Toolkit. The analysis of the legislation and of the Greek sectors has been complemented by research into international experience and consultation with stakeholders from the public and private sectors" Read more and read on line for free.

OECD (2017), OECD Competition Assessment Reviews: Greece 2017, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264088276-en

About Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Based at Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development

(Wikipedia) "Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.  It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales, and was founded by Max Roser, a social historian and development economist. The research team is based at the University of Oxford."

(Statens Serum Institute, DK.) "Our mission is to reinforce the EU's preparedness to respond to potential risk of all hazards by a continued operation of the EuroMOMO network which ensures quality checked, standardised weekly mortality monitoring." Greece is EuroMOMO networks' partner.

(Excerpt of history)"The overall objective of the original European Mortality Monitoring Project was to design a routine public health mortality monitoring system aimed at detecting and measuring, on a real-time basis, excess number of deaths related to influenza and other possible public health threats across participating European Countries. This objective was originally targeted in a (E.C.) DG Sanco supported project that ran from 2008-2011."

 "A private, non-profit, public-benefit research organisation. It was established in 1975 with the dual purpose of promoting research on current problems and prospects of the Greek economy and its sectors and of generating reliable information, analysis and proposals for action that are non produced elsewhere and can thus be of high value to policy makers in the context of economic policy making." 
"In that sense, IOBE holds a unique position in Greek society: it is the only politically independent, non-partisan body dealing with major issues of the economy, and it aspires to being pro-active, that is, it seeks to identify, at an early stage, economic issues that can become crucial in the future and to propose timely solutions for these."

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."

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).

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