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What’s OnRe-Think Athens: Urban Challenges
Part of: Re-Think Athens: Urban Challenges
Talks & Thoughts

Urban regeneration without losers?

Cycle: "Re-think Athens"

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Tuesday
Time
19:00
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Free admission

General Information

Entrance to all the events in the “Talks and Thoughts” Cycle is free and on a first come, first served basis.
The distribution of entrance tickets begins one (1) hour before each event.
Simultaneous translation is provided in the case of speakers using a language other than Greek.

A discussion about alternative policies for urban regeneration.

In recent decades, the dominant model for urban regeneration has been ‘gentrification’, a process whereby reinvestment in run-down city-center areas encourages the return of more prosperous inhabitants and more profitable economic activities.

However, by displacing the old inhabitants and activities, this form of urban regeneration creates winners and losers. The core issue under discussion at this event is whether cities have other models to choose from; could alternative policies bring about both economic regeneration and social cohesion?

Speakers

  • Professor of Social Geography at King's College London

    Chris Hamnett

  • Associate Professor at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands John Sagias: Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens

    Tuna Tasan-Kok

  • Senior Lecturer in Planning and Property Development, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL

    Nikos Karadimitriou

Chair

  • Sociologist, Researcher at the National Center for Social Research, Athens

    Nicholas Souliotis

Curator

  • Professor of Social Geography, Department of Geography, Harokopio University

    Thomas Maloutas

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