Athina Vitopoulou
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Institutional affiliation: School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki AUTh)
Architect eng. (School of Architecture, AUTh) with an expertise in urban design and urban and town planning history (DEA Projet architectural et urbain: théories et dispositifs, Ecoles d'Architectures/IFU-Université Paris 8; PhD in History and Cultures, EHESS, Paris). Her PhD research was awarded in France the “Grand Prix de Thèse sur la Ville 2011”. Since graduation, she has been active in the fields of Urban Design and Planning and has participated as a team member in urban design and planning projects and architectural competitions. She has developed a reach research, teaching and writing activity on issues related to the theory and practice of urban design and planning, environmental design, urban policies, land policies, mechanisms and processes of urban space production, urban and town planning history, institutional framework of spatial planning, protection and enhancement of urban cultural heritage. Since 2018 she is Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, AUTh.
Publications
Avdelidi, K., A. Vitopoulou, G. Gemenetzi, K. Gortsos, F. Vlastou, and E. Massou. “Issues on urban design of public space: social and spatial identifications in the case of 4 central squares in Athens.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Cities III: Spatial, Design, Landscape & Socio-Economic dimensions (Syros-Delos-Mykonos Islands, 26-30 June 2017), edited by Gospondini. Thessaloniki: Grafima Publications, 2017. 194-207. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320011788_Issues_on_urban_design_of_public_space_social_and_spatial_identifications_in_the_case_of_4_central_squares_in_Athens
Papagiannakis, A., and A. Vitopoulou. “An urban strategy in time of crisis: Mobility management and low-cost public space design.” Spatium, no. 33 (2015): 1-7. https://spatium.rs/index.php/home/article/view/64
Anastassiadis, A., and A. Vitopoulou. Modern Movement, land ownership and urban tissue: possibilities of urban regeneration projects in the centre of Thessaloniki. In Planning ideals of the Modern Movement and the Greek city, The notebooks of the Modern Movement, vol.5, edited by A. Vitopoulou, A. Yerolympos and P. Tournikiotis, 265-279. Athens: Futura, 2015.
Αnaniadou-Tzimopoulou, M., A. Yerolympos, and A. Vitopoulou. L’espace public et le rôle de la place dans la ville grecque moderne. Evolution historique et enjeux contemporains, “Etudes balkaniques”. Cahiers Pierre Belon, L’espace public dans le Sud-Est europée, 14. Paris: De Boccard, 2007. 25-52. https://journals.openedition.org/etudesbalkaniques/227
Vitopoulou, Α., and A. Yerolympos. “The planning of Thessaloniki university campus. The importance of a long-term planning.” Thessaloniki. Scientific Yearbook of the Thessaloniki History Centre of the Municipality of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki History Centre), no. 6 (2002): 273-291.