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Measuring Deprivation and Micro-Segregation in Greek Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategies: Time to Apply a Common Method?

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  • Nikos Karadimitriou

    (The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, London WC1H 0NN, UK)

  • Stavros Spyrellis

    (National Centre for Social Research, 105 52 Athens, Greece)

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During the Programming Period 2014–2020, dozens of Greek cities drafted Integrated Territorial Investment programmes, based on Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategies (ITI SUDs). The Strategies justified the selection of intervention and activity areas using socio-economic analysis. The parameters of that analysis, as specified by the National Coordination Authority, reflected the socio-economic and functional parameters highlighted in the relevant EU regulations. This paper uses a recently published methodology in order to estimate and map deprivation in Greek cities with over 100,000 inhabitants, and compares the results with the activity areas identified in the ITI SUDs of those cities. The paper also makes an estimation of the potential for micro-segregation in deprived areas, in an effort to uncover the links between deprivation, built form and social composition at the micro-scale. The analysis shows that deprivation is comparatively more pronounced in Athens and Thessaloniki, and that the use of a common methodology to measuring deprivation, but with customized measurement scales, could support a more targeted allocation of urban policy resources. On the other hand, micro-segregation seems to be a factor worth exploring only in Athens and Thessaloniki, and not in Patra, Larissa, Volos and Heraklion, where the building stock in areas of deprivation is mostly low-rise.

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  • Nikos Karadimitriou & Stavros Spyrellis, 2024. "Measuring Deprivation and Micro-Segregation in Greek Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategies: Time to Apply a Common Method?," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-16, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:13:y:2024:i:4:p:552-:d:1379539
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    1. Evangelos Asprogerakas, 2020. "Strategies of Integrated Interventions in Greece: Tools and Governance Schemes," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(5), pages 575-588, October.
    2. Anastasia Zelenina & Svetlana Shalnova & Sergey Maksimov & Oksana Drapkina, 2022. "Classification of Deprivation Indices That Applied to Detect Health Inequality: A Scoping Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(16), pages 1-19, August.
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