Georgia Pozoukidou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | AUTH · School of Urban-Regional Planning and Development Engineering

The paper focuses on Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) and the importance of incorporating participatory democracy and inclusivity, from a region-wise perspective. Traditionally MSP is a top-down (central government) process. Most responsibilities, competencies and jurisdictions lie at the national level, with usually limited input from local or regi...

This paper explores the relationships between place and subjective well-being. Despite the substantial growth in studies on this topic across multiple disciplines, there is still a long road ahead for urban planning theory. This work introduces a novel conceptual framework that illustrates in a structured manner the interrelations between place and...

Book of Abstract. The International Congress on Proximity Planning (June 26 - 28, 2024) has presented original research papers that explore the thematic and empirical challenges and opportunities that arise in the application of proximity-based planning in cities. E.T.S. Arquitectura (UPM), Madrid Spain

The International Congress on Proximity Planning (June 26 - 28, 2024) has presented original research papers that explore the thematic and empirical challenges and opportunities that arise in the application of proximity-based planning in cities. Proximity is a planning principle with a tradition of more than a century, recently revived by circumst...

The 15-minutes city (15mC) concept is a contemporary trend in urban planning which aims to improve the quality of life within the urban areas. The basic underlying idea is that all citizens have equal access to their daily needs within a short walk or bike ride from their houses. The main component that differs the 15mC from other neighborhood-cent...

The most efficient way to reduce damage and losses in metropolitan areas with complex functions that are exposed to disaster risks is to reduce their vulnerability, which necessitates an assessment of the urban system’s vulnerability. Regarding the areas located near Seveso establishments, they are characterized by high levels of vulnerability, bot...

The 15-minute-city concept represents an increasingly popular urban policymaking and planning paradigm that seeks to shift attention to the neighborhood as a “place” rather merely a spatial and functional planning unit. The core premise of the concept is that critical urban services and amenities should be reachable within 15 min of walking or cycl...

Τhe concept of ecosystem services (ES) has become known for having a unifying and interdisciplinary character, connecting environmental and socio-economic aspects in policy and decision-making processes. Integrating ES into spatial planning is perceived to be a promising approach to resilient development because it supports making such services spa...

Green infrastructure (GI) has gained high interest over the last two decades, as a policy tool to promote sustainable development and enhance the resilience of both the urban and rural environments. GI has the potential to offer multiple benefits through the services and functions performed within ecosystems, and thus its implementation requires an...

Over the last two decades, spatial planning has been in constant transformation composing a narrative that acknowledges the complex and dynamic nature of cities. This implies the obsolescence of current planning practices to fulfil its scope as well as the need to view urban systems as generated rather than fabricated structures. To this end urban...

As cities are struggling to cope with the second wave of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of 15-min cities seem to have sparked planners' imagination and politicians' willingness for providing us with a new urban planning eutopia. This paper explores the "15-min city" concept as a structural and functional element for redesigning contemporary...

Climate change and environmental pressures in urban areas have created the need for new concepts and tools for the management of urban development that ensure the protection of natural and cultural resources while also enhancing urban resilience. Green infrastructure (GI) is often associated with sustainable goals that cities strive to achieve thro...

Nowadays, cities are called upon to address contemporary challenges and disturbances that arise from climate change and economic crisis; as a result, there has been great emphasis on the concept of urban resilience. In the relevant literature the concept of resilience refers to the ability of an urban system to absorb, adapt and respond to change....

This paper is based on a recent diploma thesis on planning for reception infrastructure in the city of Thessaloniki. Inspired by the "refugee crisis" of 2015-16, the thesis mainly concerned the development of a methodology regarding the selection of suitable areas for hosting refugee population, and the location of complementary welfare infrastruct...

O δημόσιος χώρος είναι φορέας των κοινωνικών δεδομένων της πόλης καθώς εκεί παράγεται και αναπαράγεται η κοινωνία μέσα από συνεχώς μεταβαλλόμενες σχέσεις, λειτουργώντας ως ενεργητικό διάμεσο, αποτελώντας φυσική αποτύπωση των κοινωνικών μεταβολών και παράλληλα επηρεάζοντας τες, με εμφανή τη στροφή του σχεδιασμού από την αντιμετώπιση αυτού του χώρου...

Από την αρχή της δεκαετίας του ‘80 πολλές ελληνικές πόλεις έχουν εισέλθει σε μία πορεία μετάλλαξης από το παραδοσιακό «συμπαγές» μοντέλο αστικής ανάπτυξης σε ένα «διάχυτο» μοντέλο, που χαρακτηρίζεται από έντονο κατακερματισμό της δομής και των λειτουργιών του. Το φαινόμενο αυτό δεν είναι αποκλειστικά ελληνικό αλλά αντιθέτως παγκόσμιο, έχοντας ποικί...

More than 55% of the global population lives in cities, a percentage that is expected to increase in the next few decades. Increase of global population leads to increase of consumption of materials with severe impacts on the environment. Cities per se are uncircular entities and they accumulate a great amount of resources within their territory. T...

Understanding cities and their development is a complex and multifaceted issue. Cities are places where individuals, households, companiesetc. concentrate to benefit from the agglomeration and proximity of urban activities. There are many ways to approach the critical questionof how urban activities are spatially organized and interrelated to produ...

The concept of smart cities constitutes a central issue in the field of spatial planning. Numerous studies have been recorded in the relevant literature concerning the comprehension of the concept as well as the strategies connected to the development of smart cities. In an effort to understand and record the way that smart city strategies influenc...

EUs 20-20-20 Climate and Energy Strategy recognizes land uses as a critical factor in EU’s emission reduction policies. Therefore, urban areas as a form of intensive land uses, are increasingly considered to have an important role in adaptation and mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse emissions and limit the negative effects of climate change...

Urban sprawl phenomenon has been on the planning research agenda for more than five decades now. In an effort to comprehend the phenomenon there have been several quantitative approaches to measure it and identify its spatial patterns. This paper attempts to develop a refined indicator system for measuring and assessing the spatial characteristics...

The notion of integrative and multidisciplinary approach in developing and implementing sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) has been prevalent in the transportation planning agenda for several years now. The benefits of such approach include preparing better and public legitimate plans and promoting cooperative planning culture. In this contex...

This study maps and quantifies urban development in four areas in Northern Greece for the last decade using remote sensing and urban sprawl indices. It aims to correlate the results with the effects of the Greek economic crisis on the construction activity. The remotely sensed data used are two multispectral cloud-free Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM...

The notion of integrative and multidisciplinary approach in developing and implementing sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) has been prevalent in the transportation planning agenda for several years now. The benefits of such approach include preparing better and public legitimate plans and promoting cooperative planning culture. In this contex...

Land use models are tools for predicting future urban development where mathematical models are employed to represent interactions within city environment. This paper focuses on land use transport interaction models, a certain type of urban models that represent interactions between land use development and transportation infrastructure. Given that...

Architectural heritage refers to the form of cultural environment and its connection to "place-topos", being the testimony of individual and collective existence, but also of human activity through the expression of its intellectual and artistic evolution. It includes traditional buildings and settlements, historical city centers and in general all...

A literature review indicates that there is an increasing number of Land Use/Transport Interaction (LUTI) models being used in policy analysis and support of urban land use, transport and environmental planning. In this context, LUTI models are considered to be useful for the development of scenarios during the preparatory stage of Sustainable Urba...

Literature review suggests an increasing number of Land Use and Transport Interaction (LUTI) models applied in policy analysis and support of urban land use, transport and environmental planning. In this context, LUTI models are considered to be a tool for the development of scenarios during the preparatory stage of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans...

It has been proved that urban development patterns affect in various ways cities’ environmental quality. To this purpose, one of the factors that have been examined is the role of urban green spaces, in balancing the effects of human activities in dense urban landscapes. One of the major external costs of dense urban environment is smog and greenho...

The contemporary approach of strategic urban mobility planning aims at the cross-scientific analysis of the interactions between the transport system and urban structure, under the perspective of socio-economic and environmental sustainability. In this context, the European Commission currently promotes the concept of the Sustainable Urban Mobility...

The contemporary approach of strategic urban mobility planning aims at the cross-scientific analysis of the interactions between the transport system and urban structure, under the perspective of socio-economic and environmental sustainability. In this context, the European Commission currently promotes the concept of the Sustainable Urban Mobility...

It has been proved that urban development patterns affect in various ways cities' environmental quality. To this purpose, one of the factors that have been examined is the role of urban green spaces, in balancing the effects of human activities in dense urban landscapes. One of the major external costs of dense urban environment is smog and greenho...

Από τις μεγαλύτερες προκλήσεις εφαρμογής αστικών μοντέλων προσομοίωσης αποτελεί η διαθεσιμότητα των δεδομένων που αυτά χρειάζονται για να λειτουργήσουν. Αυτό συμβαίνει για δύο κυρίως λόγους, πρώτον γιατί απαιτούν μεγάλο όγκο δεδομένων και δεύτερον γιατί τα όποια δεδομένα χρησιμοποιηθούν θα πρέπει να είναι διαθέσιμα διαχρονικά. Αυτό έχει ως αποτέλεσ...

Η μεγάλη αύξηση του πληθυσμού και η συγκέντρωση αυτού σε αστικές περιοχές είναι ένα φαινόμενο που απασχολεί έντονα την παγκόσμια επιστημονική κοινότητα εδώ και πολλές δεκαετίες. Σήμερα, το 54% του παγκόσμιου πληθυσμού ζει σε αστικές περιοχές, ποσοστό που αναμένεται να υπερβεί το 65% έως το 2050, ενώ ήταν μικρότερο του 50% μόλις πριν από μία δεκαετί...

Σε μια εποχή όπου περισσότερο από το 50% του παγκοσμίου πληθυσμού κατοικεί πλέον σε αστικές περιοχές, η μελέτη των φαινομένων του αστικού χώρου αποτελεί μια από τις μεγαλύτερες επιστημονικές προκλήσεις του 21ου αιώνα. Οι χρήσεις γης είναι ίσως η πιο καθαρή αποτύπωση της επίδρασης των ανθρώπινων δραστηριοτήτων στο περιβάλλον, ενώ η μελέτη του τρόπου...

Spatial allocation of households and regional employment are the most significant data inputs in land use forecasting development and transportation modeling. Therefore obtaining and validating socioeconomic data and forecasts are becoming crucial tasks for any planning organization that wants to utilize land use forecasting models as planning anal...

TELUM software is a land use model designed specifically to help metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) prepare their transportation improvement programs and fulfill their numerous planning responsibilities. In this context obtaining, preparing, and validating socioeconomic forecasts are becoming fundamental tasks for an MPO in order to ensure...

Land use patterns and transport system are considered to be the two basic components of the urban development process, and as such they have been in the core of spatial planning policies for the last 4 decades. Land use transport interaction models are computer tools that could help us understand land use changes and organization of human activitie...

Traditional settlements are mostly small-scale villages that are under legislative protection due to their significant architectural and urban features. They are evenly distributed in the Greek territory (mainland and insular), while most of them are located in coastal and mountainous areas. Depending on the local geographical and environmental con...

Protection of traditional settlements as part of Greek cultural heritage was enabled in 1978 with the enactment of “Traditional Settlements Protection Act”. Since then traditional settlements of Greece number almost one thousand. They are mostly small-scale villages (less than 500 inhabitants) although there are few cases in which they constitute p...

Η έννοια του Τοπίου Ιδιαίτερου Φυσικού Κάλλος (ΤΙΦΚ) ως καθεστώς προστασίας της φύσης και του τοπίου εισήχθη για πρώτη φορά στην ελληνική νομοθεσία με το ν.1469/1950.Η κύρωση από τη χώρα μας σχετικών διεθνών και ευρωπαϊκών συμβάσεων καθώς και η νέα, για την εποχή εκείνη, προσέγγιση του ν.1650/86 όσον αφορά στην προστασία του περιβάλλοντος, συνέβαλε...

A planner who claims the quality and assets of his or her plans must be able to justify or even prove their anticipated outcomes. In the midst of the conflicting and sometimes contrasting views of how planning should be done, it seems that the use of models might be the most productive approach. Information technology and urban models entered plann...

Η διάρθρωση των χρήσεων γης επιδρά σημαντικά στη λειτουργική δομή του χώρου. Η μελέτη του τρόπου με τον οποίο αυτές μεταβάλλονται και διαμορφώνουν το χώρο πραγματοποιείται με τη βοήθεια των μοντέλων χρήσεων γης. Κατά αυτό τον τρόπο τα μοντέλα χρήσεων γης, ως εργαλεία σχεδιασμού, αποτελούν αναπόσπαστο κομμάτι της χωρικής ανάλυσης και του πολεοδομικο...

Στο πλαίσιο του ΕΣΠΑ 2007-2013 η Τοπική Αυτοδιοίκηση (Τ.Α.) καλείται να επιδείξει μεγαλύτερη ετοιμότητα όσο αφορά τον προγραμματισμό αναπτυξιακών έργων και δράσεων που θα την καθιστούν ανταγωνιστική και ικανή να αποσπάσει και απορροφήσει κοινοτικά κονδύλια. Η μέχρι τώρα εμπειρία μας, έχει δείξει ότι υπάρχουν σημαντικές ελλείψεις όχι μόνο στη διαχει...

Information technology, urban models and decision support tools have been and will continue to be an integral part of the decision making process in planning. Despite their unambiguous significance, they are underutilized in professional practice. This paper presents the results of a study on the applicability and effectiveness of a complex land us...

History and current circumstances suggest that regional planning organizations will be major actors in the planning arena over the next decades. Amongst other responsibilities they are now accountable for transportation and land use planning decisions which requires assessing the impacts of their transportation policies on land use development. Hen...

Information technology, urban models and decision support tools have been and will continue to be an integral part of the decision making process in planning. Despite their unambiguous significance, they are underutilized in professional practice. This paper presents the results of a study on the applicability and effectiveness of a complex land us...

Οι μητροπολιτικές περιοχές της Αθήνας και Θεσσαλονίκης βρίσκονται μπροστά σε θεμελιώδεις και βαθύς μετασχηματισμούς σε ότι αφορά τη μορφολογική και λειτουργική τους οργάνωση. Με χρονική υστέρηση περίπου μίας τεσσαρακονταετίας οι ελληνικές πόλεις έχουν αρχίσει να υφίστανται το φαινόμενο των «edge cities» ή «center-less cities» έτσι όπως έχει βιωθεί...

Τα Συστήματα Υποστήριξης Χωροταξικού Σχεδιασμού (Σ.Υ.Χ.Σ.), αποτέλεσαν και θα συνεχίσουν να αποτελούν ενιαίο και αναπόσπαστο κομμάτι των διαδικασιών σχεδιασμού και λήψης αποφάσεων. Παρά το γεγονός ότι η σημασία τους είναι αδιαμφισβήτητη, παρατηρείται ότι υπάρχει μια υστέρηση στη χρήση τους από τους φορείς δημόσιους διοίκησης. Το παρόν κείμενο παρου...

Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) are now responsible for transportation and land use planning decisions and are required to assess the impact of their transportation policies on land use development. Hence, these agencies are mandated to use sophisticated information management tools and land use modeling methods. Existing planning method...

Το άρθρο αυτό παρουσιάζει αποτελέσματα έρευνας που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο πλαίσιο της απασχόλησης μου στη Food Trust ως σύμβουλος αστικού και περιφερειακού σχεδιασμού. Περιγράφει αναλυτικά τη μεθοδολογία που αναπτύχθηκε, βάση της οποίας δημιουργήθηκαν χάρτες βέλτιστης χωροθέτησης αγορών τροφίμων στο πολεοδομικό συγκρότημα της Φιλαδέλφεια. Σημαντικό κ...