Trends and new elements in urban hierarchy research: the Greek paradigm

Lemonakis, Christos; Alexopoulos, Georgios; Garefalakis, Alexandros; Garefalakis, Stavros

doi:10.1007/s00168-022-01202-1

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“…Since the 1980s, Southern Europe -being regarded historically as an emigration regionexperienced unexpected and intense immigration (Vinci et al, 2023;Lemonakis et al, 2023). Portugal, Spain, Italy and, to a lesser extent, Greece, began to attract foreign immigrants (Escrivâ, 1997), thanks to a combination of socioeconomic, political, and demographic factors (Lazaridis & Romaniszyn, 1998).…”

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The Contribution of Immigrants to Urban Economies: Exploring Citizens' Opinions in Athens, Greece

2023

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Migration processes pose important social problems and demand appropriate integration policies. With this perspective in mind, the present study investigates native residents’ opinion on the contribution of immigrants to urban economy in Athens, Greece, using a self-reported questionnaire submitted to a convenience sample of 446 native residents 18+ years old. In spite of the current economic crisis, mixed responses were recorded about the extent Greek government should allow new immigrants to come, live and work in the country. Conversely, citizens’ opinions were rather homogeneous and negative when speaking about the state benefits granted to immigrants. Respondents who believe that, in the near future, a high (and possibly increasing) number of immigrants should be allowed to live, and work in Greece, demonstrated to be fully aware of the importance of integration policies. By contrast, in line with the ‘secular’ role of families permeating the Greek society, married people were more inclined to refuse any policy of immigrants’ integration compared to single people. Future research should emphasize how institutions, national/local policies, and contextual aspects including ethnic networks, social capital, and labor market conditions, may influence immigrant integration in traditional, Mediterranean societies.

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The Contribution of Immigrants to Urban Economies: Exploring Citizens' Opinions in Athens, Greece

2023

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“…According to the OECD Secretary-General [1], the future development of cities will determine progress in crucial areas such as the environment, economy, society, climate change, and access to affordable housing. Throughout the 21st century, European citizens have witnessed rapid and conflicting land-use change shaping urban landscapes both within and outside cities like never before [2,3]. Housing development in European cities has been a significant issue since the beginning of the century [4,5].…”

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Shaping Sustainable Cities: A Long-Term GIS-Emanated Spatial Analysis of Settlement Growth and Planning in a Coastal Mediterranean European City

Vardopoulos,

Ioannides,

Georgiou

et al. 2023

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European cities have experienced rapid (and often conflicting) transformations that include, inter alia, the environment, the economy, society, climate change, and access to affordable housing, with implications for their future development. In order to address such issues, assessing the current situation of European metropolises is crucial to understanding new urban development models. In light of these dynamics, our study focused on urban expansion in Pafos, Cyprus, between 1993 and 2021. Such dynamics were examined through photointerpretation (using kernel density estimation) via the ArcGISPro spatial analyst tool. The empirical results of this analysis are considered particularly insightful, especially those regarding urban sprawl and its implications for future land management for the study area, and could help toward shaping specific policies to guide cities towards sustainable and environmentally friendly development. The analysis reveals a gradual increase in settlements over time (55%), although the rate of growth has decreased in recent years, as a consequence of the economic crisis. Density maps revealed varying levels of urban concentration density, highlighting the presence of high-density settlement cores downtown and low-density, dispersed settlements in the surrounding districts. According to the empirical findings of this study, urban growth in Pafos features fragmented development patterns with scattered building landscapes and large empty spaces. To address the challenges of urban sprawl in the study area, specific actions are proposed to promote sustainable urban development and mitigate its negative impacts. By examining Pafos building/settlement development and urban planning, stakeholders can gain valuable insights and implement viable solutions for the future. This study contributes to the evolving discourse on urbanization, its characteristics, causes, and consequences, and highlights the importance of the “compact city” model as a counterforce to urban sprawl and a pathway to sustainability.

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“…The rapid expansion of Mediterranean cities after World War II aroused much interest in this perspective, being interpreted as a mixed socioeconomic process [11][12][13], sharing functional traits with both classical (North)European development paths and the more intense growth processes typical of emerging economies [14][15][16]. For such reasons, urban expansion in Mediterranean Europe requires continuous monitoring [17,18], since an increasing amount of agricultural and forest lands have been converted to (residential and industrial) settlements in both central and peripheral locations [19][20][21][22].…”

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Toward Sustainable Development Trajectories? Estimating Urban Footprints from High-Resolution Copernicus Layers in Athens, Greece

D’Agata,

Ponza,

Stroiu

et al. 2023

Land

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Land imperviousness reflects settlement growth and urban sprawl. Grounded on a comparative approach, a set of multidimensional statistical techniques were adopted here to quantify the evolution of land imperviousness from Copernicus High-Resolution Layers (HRLs) in a representative case study of Southern Europe (Athens, Greece). A two-way data matrix reporting the percent share of the surface land exposed to different sealing levels (101 classes ranging continuously from 0% to 100%) in the total municipal area was computed for two years (2006 and 2018) individually for 115 municipalities in metropolitan Athens. This matrix represented the information base needed to derive place-specific urban footprints and a comprehensive (global) profile of land imperviousness. Results of a Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) delineated a metropolitan structure still organized along the density gradient, moving from dense settlements in central locations with dominant land classes sealed for more than 90% of their surface area to completely pervious land (0%) typical of rural locations. While the density gradient became less steep between 2006 and 2018, it continued to aliment a socioeconomic polarization in urban and rural districts with distinctive profiles of land imperviousness. Intermediate locations had more mixed imperviousness profiles as a result of urban sprawl. Differential profiles reflect place-specific urban footprints with distinctive land take rates.

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Trends and new elements in urban hierarchy research: the Greek paradigm

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

The Contribution of Immigrants to Urban Economies: Exploring Citizens' Opinions in Athens, Greece

The Contribution of Immigrants to Urban Economies: Exploring Citizens' Opinions in Athens, Greece

Shaping Sustainable Cities: A Long-Term GIS-Emanated Spatial Analysis of Settlement Growth and Planning in a Coastal Mediterranean European City

Toward Sustainable Development Trajectories? Estimating Urban Footprints from High-Resolution Copernicus Layers in Athens, Greece

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