Anastasia Panori

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the potential contribution of smart city approaches and tools to sustainable urban development in the environment domain through an in-depth investigation of available open source and proprietary smart city applications related to environmental sustainability in urban environments.

TL;DR: In the theory of urban development, the evolutionary perspective is becoming dominant as mentioned in this paper, and cities are understood as complex systems shaped by bottom-up processes with outcomes that are hard to foresee.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the evolution of the spatial segregation of immigrants within the metropolitan area of Athens, during a period of a rapid urban transformation, using data from the last two census waves (2001 and 2011).

TL;DR: The results indicate that digital transformation allows the operationalisation of multiple methodologies which have not been used earlier by policy makers, due to lack of capabilities, and can also increase the scalability of indicators facilitating decision making at different spatial scales and better respond to the complexity of innovation systems providing dynamic and scale-diverse information.

TL;DR: In this article, a literature review and three case studies that review policies and practices for the transformation of city ecosystems mostly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic are presented, including the central business district, the transport ecosystem, and the tourism-hospitality ecosystem.