Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

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Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (born May 12, 1958) is a Greek-American academic. [1] She is a Distinguished Professor of urban planning and urban design at UCLA. [2] She is also a core faculty of the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative. [3] She served as Associate Provost for Academic Planning at UCLA from 2016-2019, [4] [5] and she has been the Associate Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs since 2010. She was the chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning from 2002-2008. She is a public space scholar and has examined transformations in the public realm and public space in cities, and their associated social meanings and impacts on urban residents. [6] [7] [8] An underlying theme of her research is its user focus, as it seeks to comprehend the built environment from the perspective of different, often vulnerable, user groups. [9] [10] [11]

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Loukaitou-Sideris studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (1977-1983), [1] [12] and is a registered architect in Athens, Greece. She later obtained a Masters in Architecture (1984), a Masters in Urban Planning (1985), and a PhD in Urban Planning (1988), all from the University of Southern California (USC). At USC she was a student of architect Panos Koulermos, and during her student years worked at his architectural studio in Westwood. She was a doctoral student of Tridib Banerjee, and together they received a grant in 1990 from the National Endowment for the Arts to study the “Private Production of Downtown Public Space: Experiences of Los Angeles and San Francisco.” [13] This study planted the seeds for Loukaitou-Sideris’s first book, Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form, co-authored with Tridib Banerjee, and published in 1998. [14] A later book of hers, Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space (2009), co-authored with her doctoral student, Renia Ehrenfeucht, is in a list of “25 must-read books about cities written by women.” [15] [16] Overall, Loukaitou-Sideris has published 12 books and over 120 academic articles and chapters. [17]

She has also been involved in a number of professional projects and has created toolkits and guidelines for professional planners and designers. [17] She has been instrumental in the creation of parklets in downtown Los Angeles and in the development of Golden Age Park, located in the Westlake neighborhood, which is the first park in Los Angeles geared towards older adults. [18] For these works she has received a number of awards from the American Planning Association. [6] [19] [20]

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  1. 1 2 "Loukaitou Sideris CV" (PDF). ucla.edu. April 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris". 22 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Faculty".
  4. ↑ "Shaping the Future of Education at UCLA". 2016-11-10.
  5. ↑ "Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Appointed Associate Provost for Academic Planning | EXECUTIVE VICE CHANCELLOR & PROVOST EMILY A. CARTER". Archived from the original on 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  6. 1 2 "Urban Planning Professor and Alumna Honored". 2019-04-18.
  7. ↑ "New Book Co-edited by Urban Planning Professors Explores "Informal Urbanism"". 2014-06-25.
  8. ↑ "Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris".
  9. ↑ "Loukaitou-Sideris Publishes New Book on Urban Design". 2019-06-20.
  10. ↑ Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia; Liggett, Robin; Iseki, Hiroyuki (2003). "2003 Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Article in Volume 22". Journal of Planning Education and Research. 23: 107. doi:10.1177/0739456X03257820. S2CID   143555781.
  11. ↑ "Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Archives". 21 December 2023.
  12. ↑ "Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris: In Athens, Greece, the Traffic is Worse!". 2012-02-09.
  13. ↑ Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia; Banerjee, Tridib (1993). "The Negotiated Plaza: Design and Development of Corporate Open Space in Downtown Los Angeles and San Francisco". Journal of Planning Education and Research. 13: 1–12. doi:10.1177/0739456X9301300103. S2CID   144743202.
  14. ↑ Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia; Banerjee, Tridib (October 1998). Urban Design Downtown by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Tridib Banerjee - Hardcover - University of California Press. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520209305.
  15. ↑ Walker, Alissa (2019) “25 must-read books about cities written by women.” Curbed. https://www.curbed.com/2019/3/8/18256644/best-books-cities-urbanism-women
  16. ↑ "Questions for Sidewalk Scholar Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris". 2009-10-21.
  17. 1 2 "Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris" . Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  18. ↑ "An outdoor oasis for Angelenos in their golden years".
  19. ↑ "Parklets Toolkit Receives National Recognition". 2014-01-23.
  20. ↑ "Luskin Center Leads the Way on SMART Parks". 2018-06-07.
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