Πλοήγηση ανά Θέμα "urban development"
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City marketing and planning in two Greek cities: plurality or constraints?
(2020)The aim of this paper is to examine the relation between city/urban planning and city marketing / branding procedures through the analysis of Strategic Place Marketing implementation in two Greek cities, Larissa and Kozani. ... -
Culture and leisure cluster in the post-industrial city: The case of Metaxourghio in Athens
(2008)During the last years globalisation has greatly changed the financial features and structure of post-modern cities. Urban space is subject to continuous transformations; superstructures, whose aims are to increase the ... -
Derelict building installations and infrastructures in Greek Spa Towns: The case of Kamena Vourla and Ypati
(2008)The evolution of thermal tourism in Greece has caused the construction of numerous imposing building complexes, installations of treatment (spa centers) and hotels (around important thermal springs), which formed the initial ... -
Determinants of willingness to pay for urban parks: An empirical analysis in Greece
(2022)This paper aims to assess the factors influencing the economic value of the visitor experience in two urban parks in Attica, Greece. Contingent Valuation is applied to estimate the willingness of visitors to pay an entry ... -
Driving factors and empirical analysis of urban sprawl in Greece
(2013)This paper aims at describing urban sprawl driven land use changes during the last decades in Greece as well as analyzing the major regional and economic development implications. Particular attention is given to the ... -
Environmental noise and air pollution monitoring in the athens ring road ('attiki odos') an important parameter for a sustainable urban development
(2015)Attica Tollway (Attiki Odos), a modern motorway extending along 65 km, constitutes the ring road of the greater metropolitan area of Athens and the main road network of the Attica Prefecture with over 4.5 million inhabitants. ... -
European cities in competition and the new 'uses' of urban design
(2002)Throughout the history of urban forms, major urban design schemes and avant-garde design of space have been mostly an outcome of economic growth of cities and countries. Marking the era of globalization, a reverse procedure ... -
Geographical and socioeconomic determinants in the topology of spatial networks: Evidence from the interregional road network in greece
(2020)This paper studies the interrelation between the topology of spatial networks and their geographic and socioeconomic framework, based on empirical data extracted from the interregional road network in Greece (GRN), aiming ... -
Geographies of (in)justice and the (in)effectiveness of place-based policies in Greece
(2022)This paper investigates the policy context of spatial injustice in Greece. Given the polarized nature of the economy and the centralized structure of the public sector, the paper examines whether place-based policies that ... -
The impacts of new technologies on urban transformations
(2008)This paper concerns the impacts of new technologies on urban morphology, structure and landscape. More specifically, it investigates two aspects of impacts: (a) the change of urban morphology in contemporary cities by means ... -
A methodological framework for defining city dipoles in urban systems based on a functional attribute
(2021)Within the context of the growth poles theory, the areas that lack critical sizes, instead of polycentric structures, develop restricted urban “dipoles” and “tripoles” that are often not studied in the literature within a ... -
New technologies opposing urban sustainability
(2008)This paper is concerned with the impacts of new technologies on urban sustainability. First, it briefly presents those new technological developments affecting urban life of individuals. Then, it focuses on new spatial ... -
Public’s perceptions of urban identity of Thessaloniki, Greece
(2022)Urban identity (UI) is a multi-faceted concept that encompasses different aspects of urban environment, built heritage and natural environment and is also related to important properties of the cities. The paper studies ... -
The reasons for visiting urban parks: a case study in Greece
(2022)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the reasons for visiting the urban park Antonis Tritsis in Athens, Greece, focusing on visitors’ motives and perceived characteristics of the park. When urban parks are ... -
Setting the grounds for the green infrastructure in the metropolitan areas of athens and thessaloniki: The role of green space
(2018)Green Infrastructure (G.I.) is a sine qua non in contemporary planning. Green spaces can play a vital role in serving as grounds for developing G.I. and promoting environmental, social and economic benefits. In Athens and ... -
Smart cities as hubs: Connect, collect and control city flows
(2022)Regardless the Smart City (SC) broad scope, which ranges from a service-oriented ecosystem with the use of almost all the emerging technologies to a resilient urban environment, practice shows that the SC is mostly capitalized ... -
Strategies of Integrated Interventions in Greece: Tools and Governance Schemes
(2020)The integrated approach to urban development consists is an EU policy direction, which was incorporated into the institutional framework by many Member States. This paper aspires to explore, through a critical presentation, ... -
Supporting stakeholder analysis within iczm process in small and medium-sized mediterranean coastal cities with the use of Q-method
(2019)Stakeholder engagement is considered essential in Integrated Coastal Zone Management. In this context, detailed stakeholder analysis can provide a useful support for decision-making. Such an analysis can be particularly ... -
Towards sustainable planning in the era of climate change: Spatial policies for built-up areas in Greece
(2011)This paper is a critical approach of the institutional framework and the related policies to environmental planning in contemporary Greek towns. Specifically, the paper investigates the achievements as well as the malfunctions ... -
Urban open spaces as a commons: The credibility thesis and common property in a self-governed park of Athens, Greece
(2020)Although abandoned, unused or underused urban open spaces can play an important role in urban well-being, the traditional approaches of state management and privatization have failed to revive them, due to the lack of ...