The Authors (A-L)

Olga Balaoura

Architect, Urban Planner and Researcher. She holds a PhD from IUAV University of Venice, a MSc (Post-graduate Master in Urbanism) from the University of Delft, Netherlands and a Diploma in Architecture from the Polytechnic School of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. She is currently working, among others, as lecturer at the Postgraduate Program in Urban Planning and Urban Design of the NTUA and at the Faculty of Architecture of the Democritus University of Thrace.

Nikos Belavilas

Associate Professor of Urban Planning at School of Architecture NTUA and Director of Urban Environment Lab NTUA (EnvLab). Coordinator of Lavrion Techonogical Cultural Park project (1994-1997) and director of Ermoupolis Industrial Museum (2000). Architect, collaborating with Vaso Trova, of Greek Film Archive Building. Scientific director of EnvLab projects (e.g. Hellinikon Metropolitan Park, Elefsina Coastal zone). Member of international committees for listed monuments and ICOMOS scientific evaluator of UNESCO Word Heritage List. Has been awarded twice in international architectural competitions.

Panagiotis Bourlessas

Panagiotis Bourlessas completed his undergraduate studies at the Athens University of Economics. Afterwards he departed —both literally and figuratively— for a European post-graduate programme in Urban Studies, held by six universities in four capital cities of the contnent. The last year he has settled in the wounded city of L’Aquila, Italy, as a doctorate candidate at the Social Sciences unit of the Gran Sasso Science Institute; from there he will depart in two years. Instantaneously, his interests are located in the fields of cultural geography: space, meaning, ideology, inequality, landscape. After each departure, he returns to Athens.

Noëlle Burgi

Senior Researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS; France), European Center of Sociology and Political Science (CESSP). Her research centers on state transformation in Europe, neoliberal governmentally, the new managerialism and its effects on individual life trajectories and identity, and, more recently, the sources and effects of the deconstruction of the social state in Southern Europe, notably Greece. Her work on Greece has recently been supported by the French School of Athens.

Roxane Caftanzoglou

Roxane Caftanzoglou is a social anthropologist and Research Director at the National Centre for Social Research. Her fields of interest and publications concern family history, the anthropology of space, representations of the past, material culture and cultural consumption. She has published the books Domestic Organization and Kinship: Syrrako 1898-1929 (1997), Families of the Past. Historical Forms of Kinship in western Europe and the Balkans (1996), Boundaries and Margins. Inclusion and Exclusion (2000), The Shadow of the Sacred Rock. Place and Memory in Anafiotika (2001).

Christos Chalkias

Associate Professor in the department of Geography (former head of the department), Harokopion University of Athens. His research concentrates on  Geographic Information Science, Applied Geography, Spatial Analysis with the use of Geoinformatics, GIS-based modeling of Natural Disasters as well as Digital Cartography. He has published significant number of scientific articles and books  on these issues.

Constantinos Chlomoudis

Professor at the Department of Maritime Studies of the University of Piraeus, teaching port and maritime transport courses. His research activities have been centred on issues of Port Administration and Organisation as well as overall issues of maritime transport organization of Ports. His book “European Port Policy: Towards a Long Term Strategy” has been acclaimed as a ground breaking book on European Port Policy and has been translated in various languages. He is an influencing expert in Port Strategy and Management with more than 70 papers in leading shipping and maritime journals including Maritime Policy & Management, European Transport Trasporti Europei, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, World Transport Policy and Practice, IAME, etc. His professional activities include consulting for leading organizations and companies as well as C-level managerial positions.

Ioannis Chorianopoulos

Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean. He has taught at the LSE and has researched at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley (Fulbright Visiting Scholar). His academic interests focus on the themes of European Integration, urban competitiveness and sprawl, participatory governance and social exclusion.

Katerina Christoforaki

MSc Architect – Urban Planner NTUA, PhD candidate of the School of Architecture, NTUA. Currently working as a researcher at the Laboratory of Urban Environment, NTUA and also active in the private sector. Main research interests include the examination of the shaping of the urban environment under given pressures, by looking into the successive changes in the structure of the city and the contributing factors. The ultimate goal of the research is to strengthen the ability to apply sustainable and resilient planning of the city.

Sofia Daliou

BSc in Spatial Planning and Development at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Diploma thesis entitled “Urban social movements and their spatial dimensions: the case of self-managed social centers in Thessaloniki”, presented in 2015. Internship at the National Centre for Social Research, concerning the international program «Governing Urban Diversity: Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today’s Hyper-diversified Cities” (DIVERSITIES) and the program “Socioeconomic Class, Social Status and Consumption: Stratification, Mobility and Urban Consumption in Athens” (SECSTACON).

George Dedousis

Professor of Human Biology in the Department of Dietetics-Nutrition in Harokopio University of Athens. He received his bachelor of Biology from the University of Patras and his MSc in Biotechnology from the University of Compiegne in France. He received his PhD from the Medical School of Athens. In 2004 he was nominated Fulbright fellow and worked for three months in the Medical school of Harvard University in Boston. He is the institutional coordinator of the Erasmus program and Vice-President of the university council. He has been participant or coordinator in European and national grants. He has authored and co-authored more than 210 papers in peer-reviewed journals very prestigious like Nature, Nature Genetics, with a number of citations >11000.

Pavlos – Marinos Delladetsimas

Professor, Harokopio University, Department of Geography. Has worked at the National Technical University of Athens and the University of the Aegean. Has also worked at IFRESI/CNRS-Lille and taught in post-graduate courses in Europe; has published numerous articles, book chapters and books and coordinated research programmes. Member of expert groups and scientific committees. Academic/research interests: Land Values and Real Estate, Spatial Planning, Urban Vulnerability and Disaster Management. Visiting professor at KU Leuven and École d’Ingénieurs Polytechnique de l’Université de Tours.

Clément Dillenseger

PhD Student for urban studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon (Laboratory EVS). His research links urban geography and environmental geography. More precisely, he studies the issues of cleanliness and dirt in different european cities. Currently, he’s teaching at the University Jean Moulin – Lyon 3

Maria (Melina) Dimitriou

Maria (Melina) Dimitriou studied at Harokopio University of Athens, where she obtained a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics with distinction. She received a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the University of Glasgow. She has worked as research and teaching associate (clinical internship instructor) at Harokopio University. She is currently a PhD student at Harokopio University and her research interests mainly include genetic susceptibility and dietary patterns in coronary artery disease. She also practices dietetics (private practice).

Giorgos Dimitropoulos

Postgraduate student at the Department of Geography, Harokopio University. Urban Social Geography is the main object of his research interests with a particular focus on the case of Athens

Leonidas Doukissas

Statistician who holds a Ph.D. degree in Spatial Statistical Analysis from the Department of Geography of Harokopio University. He studied Statistics from the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science (UNIPI) and, moreover holds a graduate degree in Applied Statistics of the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science (UNIPI). His scientific interests mainly focus on spatial statistical analysis, econometric methods of statistics, social statistics, and time series forecasting with large datasets. He has articles in scientific journals and conferences as well as a chapter in a scientific book. It has provided teaching assistance in statistical methods at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in the Department of Geography of Harokopio University. He works in the Private Sector as Data Scientist manipulating and analyzing large databases.

Dimitris Emmanuel

Dimitris Emmanuel has studied Architecture in NTU, Athens, received a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from LSE and has since mainly worked on the social and economic analysis of housing and urban development and, more recently, on social classes and urban consumption. He has been the Head of Research and Housing Policy Studies in DEPOS (1979-2003) and since 2004, a research director in EKKE. His more recent publications include Supply of Planned Land, Housing and Prices in Athens (1984-2004), Athens, NCSR, 2008.

Antigoni Faka

Received her PhD from the Department of Geography of Harokopio University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the same department and a MSc in Geoinformatics (School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA). Her PhD thesis is about applied geoinformatics in geographic information management and the assessment of quality of life in local government units. Her research interests are focused on applied geography and Geographic Information Systems.

Stefanos Georganos

Second year Master student in geoinformatics at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science in Lund. Holder of a Bachelor’s degree in Geography from Harokopeio University of Athens. His Bachelor thesis relates to the spatial analysis of the double parliamentary election results of 2012. His research interests focus on the areas of spatial analysis, real estate, electoral geography and Geographic Information Systems.

Ioannis Georgikopoulos

PhD in Geography/Geopolitics (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and MAs in Political Science, International Relations, and Political Communication (Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas). His research interests and publications in Greece and abroad include the study of the Greek-Turkish relations with reference to wider geographical scales, the Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern Greek State, the Geopolitics of Greek maritime cities and societies, the evolution of symbolic representations and strategies in the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean and the European Union as well as group and identity-building processes, migration flows, and diaspora networks in the modern and contemporary context.

Afroditi Georgikou

Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Harokopio University. Her thesis was related to cinema and focused particularly on registering and dynamically mapping all changes in movie theatres (openings and closures) between 1950 and 2015 in Athens Metropolitan Region. The changes in the spatial pattern of movie theatres over this long period has helped to elaborate on the relation between the changing place of cinema in leisure activities and the spatial distribution of movie theatres in a city experiencing fast growth (1950-1980) and stability (1980-2015).

Kostas Gizelis

Kostas Gizelis studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). With some friends he created the Student Popular Orchestra, with the participation of the young composer Eleni Karaindrou, aiming at promoting Greek music. His participation in the anti-dictatorial struggle, through the lines of the Patriotic Front organization, led to his arrest and imprisonment in October 1967. Following his hiring at the Ministry of Culture he mainly dealt with the mapping of findings in archaeological excavations by the 3rd Unit of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. At the same time he continued his activities related to music, painting, film collection as well as the production of radio programs at the radio stations 902 Left on the FM and the 3rd Program of Manos Hadjidakis.

Kostas Gounis

PhD in Social Anthropology from Columbia University, New York. Assistant Professor of Urban Anthropology, Sociology Department, University of Crete. His previous research, initially in New York City, has dealt with homelessness, substance use and the AIDS epidemic, and the role of psychiatry and mental health policy in addressing urban social problems. More recently, he has been researching homelessness in Athens, Greece. His publications and research interests to date have focused on the survival strategies of the new urban poor and the emergence of new institutional arrangements and disciplinary mechanisms aimed at the domestication of urban marginality.

Vincent Gouzi

Vincent Gouzi was born in 1947 in Toulouse, France. He graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris in 1968, from the National Institute of Languages and Civilizations in 2012. He received a doctorate in Economic History from the same Institute in 2017. In the meantime, he pursued a career as a banker in the Suez group, in its SME equipment financing branch. His doctoral thesis focused on Greek industry: “Greek Industry from reconstruction to crisis 1950-2014. Product transformation and permanence of employment structures »

Costis Hadjimichalis

Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography, Harokopio University. He also taught as Assistant and Associate Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Visiting professor at several universities in Europe, the US and Australia.

Fanis Kafantaris

He studied architecture in Athens at the NTUA where he continued with postgraduate studies in architectural theory. The transformations of the built environment and transitions in the daily experience of the city form a key focus area in his work. He has participated in research projects and studies for Athens and its city center (NTUA, RA Lab, Rethink Athens) and works of his have been exhibited in group shows; art and architecture (DOMES PANORAMA 2014, Athens Biennale 5to6). He Lives and works in Athens and is a PhD student at the School of Architecture, NTUA.

Manina Kakepaki

Manina Kakepaki is a researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) since 2010. She has studied in Athens (Bachelor’s Degree, PhD) and Essex (MA Political Behaviour) and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Athens researching gender differences on political values and attitudes. Her current research intersects include aspects of youth political socialization, political participation and elite representation. She has participated in more than 20 national and international research projects. She is on the editorial board of the Greek Review of Social Research.

Leonidas Kallivretakis

Research Director at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, coordinator of the Research Division of Political History and former director of the Program «Historical Study of Settlements in Greece». His research interests include: Political, Social and Economic History, 19^th-20^th centuries; History of Athens (focusing on architecture, urbanism and its function as scenery for political activities and conflicts); Study of the Dictatorship 1967-1974.

Creator of the «Historical Database of Contemporary Monuments of the City of Athens»: http://www.eie.gr/archaeologia/gr/arxeio.aspx

Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos

PhD Candidate of the Department of Geography at Harokopio University. His research interests are focused on Applied Geoinformatics, the creation of Spatial Data Infrastructures, Spatial Analysis using Geoinformatics, the Modeling of Natural Disasters (mainly Floods) and Digital Cartography. He has participated in numerous research projects and has written articles in scientific journals, chapters in scientific books and in scientific conferences. In recent years, he has been providing supplementary teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Department of Geography (Harokopio University).

Stamatis Kalogirou

Assistant Professor in Applied Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens. Having twenty years of experience in computer programming and GIS he has developed the R package lctools. His publication record includes numerous basic and applied spatial analysis studies in geography and demography. He mainly looks at migration; population ageing; spatial inequalities; human poverty and geocomputation applications. He strongly supports open source software and creative commons.

Melinna Kaminari

George Kandylis

George Kandylis is a Research Fellow at the National Centre for Social Research, Athens. He received his PhD form the University of Thessaly. He has mainly worked in research on contemporary immigration in Greece and its impact in urbanization processes. His areas of interest include social segregation and inequalities, mobility, racism and securitization in the Greek cities.

Dimitra Kanellopoulou

Dimitra Kanellopoulou is an architect-engineer from the National Technical University of Athens NTUA (2006) with a Master diploma on urban planning issues from the École Nationale de Ponts et Chaussées ENPC (2008). She actually holds the position of associate professor at the Université Euro-Méditerranéenne de Fès (UEMF). She also teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais and at the Institute of Research and Higher Education Studies in Tourism (IREST). She has worked as an urban planner at the City Plan Department of the municipality of Athens (2009-2010) as also as at the Region of Athens in the framework of the new Master Plan for Attica (2010). From 2011 till now, she lives and works in Paris and she is a member of the Research Laboratory UMR 8504 Géographie-cités

Athanasia Karageorgi

BSc Mathematics, BSc Informatics, MSc Geoinformatics. She is PhD Student in Harokopio University, Department of Geography. She is preparing her PhD thesis on the Geography of Education. Her research interests include GIS, Spatial Analysis and Spatial Interaction Models. She is High School Mathematics and Informatics Teacher.

Nicolas Karachalis

Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly in Volos and lecturer at the post-graduate programme in Cultural Management at the Hellenic Open University. He holds a PhD in Economic and Regional Development and a Master degree in European Urban Cultures. He has a strong interest in analysing the trends and dynamics between culture, tourism and spatial development processes, using an interdisciplinary approach and perspective.

Zoi Karampini

She holds a PhD from NTUA, after studies in architecture at AUTH and in urban planning at the NTUA’s MSc program. Her research interests focus on children’s geographies, sociology of childhood, urban studies, ethnography, and everyday practices. Her work appears in scientific journals, conferences, and books. She is also actively engaged in participatory spatial planning and organizing experiential learning educational programs.

Sotiria Katsafadou

Architect with MSc in ‘Urban and Regional Planning’. Ph.D. Candidate of the Department of Planning and Regional Development of the University of Thessaly. As a researcher in Laboratory of Tourism Planning, Research and Policy she has participated in the Strategic Marketing Plan of Larissa, Strategic Marketing Plan of Kozani, etc. Her research interests focus on the interaction of the concepts of landscape and Place Marketing.

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Karolos – Iosif Kavoulakos

Dr Karolos Iosif Kavoulakos is lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has participated in several research projects in the following research areas: civil society, social movements, urban sociology, social cohesion, gender policy. He has recently conducted surveys and researches on contemporary alternative economic and political spaces and social movements in Greece.

Orestis Kolokouris

Orestes Kolokouris is a Geographer-Environmentalist, Ph.D Candidate at Panteion Univeristy of Athens. Born in 1981, studied in England and France Environmental Science, Engineering and Geography. His Ph.D research focuses in Environmental Conflicts in peri-urban areas . Supervisor deputy Proffessor Th. Anthopoulou. He is participating in research network “Foncimed” based in Montpellier and participates in the network coordinated by AgroPariTech that aims to promote the mapping, identification and measurement of Land-use Conflicts. Parliamentrary Assistant for the Greek Green Party.

Chrysa Kousoulenti

Chrysa Kousoulenti is a social worker. She completed her postgraduate studies (MA) «Methodology and applications in social policy” at the Department of Social Policy of Panteion University. Her thesis was entitled “Social dispensaries and pharmacies as a new social and political form action. The case of the Greek Metropolitan Social Clinic”. Her research interests focus on innovative actions, initiatives and structures that develop and take a movement dynamic opposed to the dominant socio-economic model. She has presented aspects of her research work in seminars and conferences.

Anastasia Koutoumanou

Architect (NTUA), MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (NTUA). Her research interests include the present and future of the dominant type of building in Athens, the block of flats, known as the polykatoikia, which was developed intensively in the 1950s to 1970s. In her undergraduate and postgraduate studies, she researched the potential of improving the living conditions in the Athenian polykatoikia, the social relations developed among the residents, the ownership imprint of the building on the urban sprawl and more.

Eleni Kyramargiou

Eleni Kyramargiou is a historian and post-doc researcher in the Institute of Historical Research/ National Hellenic Research Foundation. She has worked in research programmes organised by the Institute of Mediterranean Studies and the National Technical University of Athens. Her research focuses on the subject of refugee settlement and industrial history in the wider area of Piraeus. She just published her first book, titled “Drapetsona 1922-1967. On the edge of the world”.

Georgia Lalou

Georgia Lalou is an architect engineer AUTH and holds a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly. The topic of the thesis is about the integration of marketing and branding strategies to the creative city approach. She is also a researcher at the Laboratory of Tourism Planning Research and Policy and participated in programs involving urban interventions and image making in Greek cities. Her research interests concern marketing and branding strategies, cities’ creative identity and the contribution of the creative and cultural industries to urban development.

Olga Lafazani

Post doc researcher for ERC in GRECO project, Department of Anthropology, University of Barcelona. She has studied Economic and Urban Development in Panteion University and got her master degree on Urban and Regional Planning, in the National Technical University of Athens. She finished her PhD in 2014 on “Transnational Geographies of Migration” with professor Costis Hadjimichalis in Harokopeio University. She has been employed in several research projects mainly around the issues of migration, borders, urban space and gender while her most recent work focuses on the economic crisis in the South of Europe.

Lila Leontidou

Architect, Planner and Geographer (Dipl.Arch EMP, Athens, M.Sc LSE, PhD Univ.London), Visiting Professor of Mediterranean Studies at the University of Peloponnese, Senior Fellow at the LSE (UK) since 2012 and at the JHU (USA) 1986. She has held permanent teaching posts at four Greek Universities and a British one (KCL), has been elected Head of Department and/ or Dean, has held visiting Professorships in 2 French Universities, and has been a founding member of the first Geography Department in Greece (University of the Aegean). She has published about 200 scholarly books, articles and monographs in Greek, English and French, and some of her works have been translated into Spanish, Italian, German and Japanese. She has authored The Mediterranean City in Transition (Cambridge U.P. 1990/2006), Cities of Silence (in Greek, Athens 1989/2013), Geographically Illiterate Land (in Greek, Athens 2005/2011) and co-edited Mediterranean Tourism (Routledge 2001), Urban Sprawl in Europe (Blackwell 2007) and other volumes.