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Anastasia Panori is a senior research associate. Her main research interests focus on regional, urban and socio-economic development, data science, smart cities, and Smart Specialisation Strategies at a regional level. Since 2012, she has been working as a researcher and has participated in various projects funded by the European Union and the Greek Government. She is an Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering), holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, and a PhD in Economic and Regional Development from Panteion University of Athens.
The paper is a follow-up of a previous investigation and effort to develop the ontology of the smart city (Komninos, N., Bratsas, C., Kakderi, C., and Tsarchopoulos, P. "Smart city ontologies: Improving the effectiveness of smart city applications". Journal of Smart Cities, vol. 1(1), 1-17. https://www.komninos.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-Smart-City-Ontologies-Published.pdf). Since the publication of this article in 2015, research and literature on smart cities have evolved significantly, as have the technologies for digital spaces and applications that support city functions. These developments are reflected in the present form of the smart city ontology 2.0 we propose. It depicts the building blocks of the smart city ontology (technologies, structure, function, planning), and the object properties and data properties that connect structural blocks and classes. The aim of the SCO 2.0 is to provide a better understanding and description of the smart/intelligent city landscape; identify the main components and processes, the terms used to describe them, their definition and meaning; clarify key processes related to the integration of the different dimensions of the smart city, mainly the physical, social, and digital dimensions. The paper is accompanied by an owl file, developing the ontology through the editor Protégé.
Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Christina Kakderi. The Smart City Ontology 2.0: Assessing the Components and Interdependencies of City Smartness. 2021, 1 .
AMA StyleNicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori, Christina Kakderi. The Smart City Ontology 2.0: Assessing the Components and Interdependencies of City Smartness. . 2021; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Christina Kakderi. 2021. "The Smart City Ontology 2.0: Assessing the Components and Interdependencies of City Smartness." , no. : 1.
Fundamental principles of modern cities and urban planning are challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the advantages of large city size, high density, mass transport, free use of public space, unrestricted individual mobility in cities. These principles shaped the development of cities and metropolitan areas for more than a century, but currently, there are signs that they have turned from advantage to liability. Cities Public authorities and private organisations responded to the COVID-19 crisis with a variety of policies and business practices. These countermeasures codify a valuable experience and can offer lessons about how cities can tackle another grand challenge, this of climate change. Do the measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis represent a temporal adjustment to the current health crisis? Or do they open new ways towards a new type of urban development more effective in times of environmental and health crises? We address these questions through literature review and three case studies that review policies and practices for the transformation of city ecosystems mostly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: (a) the central business district, (b) the transport ecosystem, and (c) the tourism–hospitality ecosystem. We assess whether the measures implemented in these ecosystems shape new policy and planning models for higher readiness of cities towards grand challenges, and how, based on this experience, cities should be organized to tackle the grand challenge of environmental sustainability and climate change.
Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Eleni Oikonomaki. Next City: Learning from Cities during COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3158 .
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori, Eleni Oikonomaki. Next City: Learning from Cities during COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3158.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Eleni Oikonomaki. 2021. "Next City: Learning from Cities during COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3158.
Smart cities constitute a new urban paradigm and a hegemonic phenomenon in contemporary city development. The concept envisages a data-enhanced future and efficiency gains made possible by automation and innovation in city activities and utilities. However, the way smart cities are created brings about two weaknesses. First, there is strong compartmentation of solutions and systems, which are developing in vertical markets for energy, transport, governance, safety, etc., silos with little interoperability and sharing of resources. Second, there is a low impact, some increase in efficiency, some reduction in costs, time gained, some decrease in CO2 emissions. There is an important knowledge gap about developing cross-sector, high-impact smart city systems. This paper deals with these challenges and investigates a different direction in smart city design and efficiency. We focus on ‘Connected Intelligence Spaces’ created in smart city ecosystems, which (a) have physical, social, and digital dimensions; (b) work as systems of innovation enabling synergies between human, machine, and collective intelligence; and (c) improve efficiency and performance by innovating rather than optimizing city routines. The research hypothesis we assess is about a universal architecture of high impact smart city projects, due to underlying connected intelligence spaces and cyber-physical-social systems of innovation. We assess this hypothesis with empirical evidence from case studies related to smart city projects dealing with safety (Vision-Zero), transportation (MaaS), and energy (positive energy districts). We highlight the main elements of operation and how high efficiency is achieved across these verticals. We identify commonalities, common innovation functions, and associations between functions, allowing us to define a common architecture enabling innovation and high performance across smart city ecosystems.
Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Luca Mora; Anastasia Panori; Elena Sefertzi. Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy 2021, 1 -29.
AMA StyleNicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Luca Mora, Anastasia Panori, Elena Sefertzi. Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 2021; ():1-29.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Luca Mora; Anastasia Panori; Elena Sefertzi. 2021. "Towards High Impact Smart Cities: a Universal Architecture Based on Connected Intelligence Spaces." Journal of the Knowledge Economy , no. : 1-29.
Fundamental principles of modern cities and urban planning are challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the advantages of large city size, high density, mass transport, free use of public space, unrestricted individual mobility in cities. These principles shaped the development of cities and metropolitan areas for more than a century, but currently, there are signs that they have turned from advantage to liability. Cities Public authorities and private organisations responded to the COVID-19 crisis with a variety of policies and business practices. These countermeasures codify a valuable experience and can offer lessons about how cities can tackle another grand challenge, this of climate change. Do the measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis represent a temporal adjustment to the current health crisis? Or do they open new ways towards a new type of urban development more effective in times of environmental and health crises? We address these questions through literature review and three case studies that review policies and practices for the transformation of city ecosystems mostly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: (a) the central business district, (b) the transport ecosystem, and (c) the tourism-hospitality ecosystem. We assess whether the measures implemented in these ecosystems shape new policy and planning models for higher readiness of cities towards grand challenges. And how, based on this experience, cities should be organized to tackle the grand challenge of environmental sustainability and climate change.
Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Eleni Oikonomaki. Next City: Learning from Cities During COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change. 2021, 1 .
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori, Eleni Oikonomaki. Next City: Learning from Cities During COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change. . 2021; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Eleni Oikonomaki. 2021. "Next City: Learning from Cities During COVID-19 to Tackle Climate Change." , no. : 1.
The paper focuses on the design of urban digital transformation strategies. It builds upon the lessons learned from the Digital Cities Challenge initiative, developed by the European Commission, designed to empower European cities to design and implement digital transformation strategies for the uptake of advanced digital services and the smart growth of city ecosystems. We study three cities that participated in the Digital Cities Challenge—Sofia, Granada, and Kavala—and provide an overview of the strategy designs they adopted. The results indicate that beside significant differences in context, sectors, and ecosystems targeted at those cities, common features shape the design of their digital transformation strategies based on digital platforms, such as opening markets for e-services, enhancement of local infrastructures, improving digital skills, and innovation funding mechanisms. We argue that creating digital platforms for ecosystem building is an essential strategy of digital transformation as it can produce network effects and externalities in digital space, similar to those deriving from spatial proximity in physical space. As a result, both spatial and digital network effects lead the development of externalities that play a key role in the formation, expansion, and sustainability of ecosystems.
Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Antonio Collado; Ilektra Papadaki; Anastasia Panori. Digital Transformation of City Ecosystems: Platforms Shaping Engagement and Externalities across Vertical Markets. Journal of Urban Technology 2020, 28, 93 -114.
AMA StyleNicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Antonio Collado, Ilektra Papadaki, Anastasia Panori. Digital Transformation of City Ecosystems: Platforms Shaping Engagement and Externalities across Vertical Markets. Journal of Urban Technology. 2020; 28 (1-2):93-114.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Antonio Collado; Ilektra Papadaki; Anastasia Panori. 2020. "Digital Transformation of City Ecosystems: Platforms Shaping Engagement and Externalities across Vertical Markets." Journal of Urban Technology 28, no. 1-2: 93-114.
The paper negotiates two main questions of the methodology of EDP in Smart Specialisation. First is the granularity level of detail in the analysis and the assessment of dynamism of economic activities. We argue that NACE three-digit codes offer the best combination of homogeneity of statistics and sectoral studies. Still, all NACE three-digit codes are not cadets for discovering business opportunities and new innovation activities and therefore, further research for the selection of priority fields is necessary. Second question is about the collective nature of interventions and investments developed through EDP. We argue that business ecosystems that unite large number of enterprises may exceed the risk of priority investments for specific businesses and groups. The demarcation of investments in relation to platform-based ecosystems as well as of ecosystems which are developed on top of value chains is of particular importance. Both methodological principles which are proposed in the paper (selection of three-digit NACE code ecosystems and platforms based on functions/needs of such ecosystems) can complement the theoretical weaknesses that reasonably exist in terms of discovery and innovation.
Christina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Artemis Psaltoglou. Smart Specialisation 2.0: Driving Public Funds Towards Platforms and Ecosystems. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 68 -79.
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori, Artemis Psaltoglou. Smart Specialisation 2.0: Driving Public Funds Towards Platforms and Ecosystems. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():68-79.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori; Artemis Psaltoglou. 2020. "Smart Specialisation 2.0: Driving Public Funds Towards Platforms and Ecosystems." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 68-79.
Migration has long had an impact on spatial segregation within the metropolitan area of Athens. This process has also been affected by local economic restructuring mechanisms, which, in recent years, have evolved within the context of the 2008 economic crisis. This study attempts to shed light on 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). Given that previous evidence indicates both vertical segregation in the immigrant labour market structure and diffused immigrant settlements, the work presented here investigates the ways in which urban migrant structures have evolved through local economic restructuring processes, as well as throughout space. The study presents a set of quantitative urban segregation indicators, covering the aspects of evenness, exposure, concentration, and centralisation. It also captures the most significant occupational changes between different migrant‐status groups (non‐EU and EU immigrants), during a crucial period for Athens. Evidence indicates that there has been an overall raise in immigrant settlement segregation, accompanied by an increased centralisation trend. Moreover, the urban transformation through economic restructuring that took place in Athens, following the general EU trend towards a knowledge‐based economic model, has altered the immigrant labour market structure, leading to vertical segregation patterns, driven by professionalisation.
Anastasia Panori; Yannis Psycharis; Dimitris Ballas. Spatial segregation and migration in the city of Athens: Investigating the evolution of urban socio‐spatial immigrant structures. Population, Space and Place 2018, 25, 1 .
AMA StyleAnastasia Panori, Yannis Psycharis, Dimitris Ballas. Spatial segregation and migration in the city of Athens: Investigating the evolution of urban socio‐spatial immigrant structures. Population, Space and Place. 2018; 25 (5):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Panori; Yannis Psycharis; Dimitris Ballas. 2018. "Spatial segregation and migration in the city of Athens: Investigating the evolution of urban socio‐spatial immigrant structures." Population, Space and Place 25, no. 5: 1.
The emergence of the cloud computing paradigm has found fertile ground in the smart cities discipline, especially with regards to its benefits both in terms of big data storage and analytic capabilities and in terms of smart city service provision. Over the past years we have noticed an abundance of publications on cloud computing; from government reports to corporate studies, all show the significant benefits of cloud computing and the opportunities presented by the migration of public/municipal services to the cloud. Despite the availability of information, the landscape with regard to cloud computing adoption is still quite blurry. This chapter aims to provide methodological guidance to public/city authorities on the use of and the actual steps towards taking up the cloud computing paradigm. More specifically, it offers a simple methodology in the form of a roadmap with the main roadblocks one can expect to encounter when migrating public services to the cloud, along with a set of recommendations that facilitate decision-making in various stages of this process. We also argue that cloud computing adoption should not be an isolated action of an organization (city authority/governmental agency), but part of a wider strategic model based on open innovation practices (the use of open source technologies for the cloud platform and applications, the use of open data, the adoption of user engagement methodologies etc.) as well as the use of innovative business models.
Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori. Smart Cities on the Cloud. Progress in IS 2018, 57 -80.
AMA StyleChristina Kakderi, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori. Smart Cities on the Cloud. Progress in IS. 2018; ():57-80.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos; Nicos Komninos; Anastasia Panori. 2018. "Smart Cities on the Cloud." Progress in IS , no. : 57-80.
Regions in the European Union (EU) are called to design and implement Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3), as a prerequisite to receive funding for research and innovation from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). To facilitate and streamline this process, the European Commission (EC) has published a Guide to RIS3 and a handbook for implementing Smart Specialisation, providing a set of methodological steps on how to design a RIS3 strategy. Although these publications provide valuable resources to facilitate RIS3 design and implementation, their inputs are focused mostly on the methodological framework, without pointing out any operational directions that could support an undertaking of the proposed methodological tasks in a streamlined and user-friendly way. The Online-S3 project, funded under the Horizon 2020, tries to address this challenge, by developing an online platform for policy advice. This study explores the information links amongst a set of methodologies, across the six phases of RIS3 design process, highlighting underlying relationships in a logical manner, based on the information flows that are detected. The results reveal parts of the overall mechanism for RIS3 policy making processes, providing guidance to regional authorities and encouraging them to use additional methods throughout their RIS3 strategy-design process, that could be managed and delivered through online platforms and applications. This prepares the grounds for future, empirical investigations of this currently under-researched topic, which appears to be crucial for policy-makers.
Anastasia Panori; Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Katharina Fellnhofer. Smart Specialisation Strategies: An Online Platform for Strategy Design and Assessment. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies 2018, 3 -16.
AMA StyleAnastasia Panori, Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Katharina Fellnhofer. Smart Specialisation Strategies: An Online Platform for Strategy Design and Assessment. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies. 2018; ():3-16.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Panori; Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Katharina Fellnhofer. 2018. "Smart Specialisation Strategies: An Online Platform for Strategy Design and Assessment." Inventive Computation and Information Technologies , no. : 3-16.
In the theory of urban development, the evolutionary perspective is becoming dominant. Cities are understood as complex systems shaped by bottom-up processes with outcomes that are hard to foresee and plan for. This perspective is strengthened by the current turn towards smart cities and the intensive use of digital technologies to optimize urban ecosystems. This paper extends the evolutionary thinking and emerging dynamics of cities to smart city planning. It is based on recent efforts for a smart city strategy in Thessaloniki that enhances the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of the city. Taking advantage of opportunities offered by the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge, the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities, the World Bank, and the EU Horizon 2020 Program, Thessaloniki shaped a strategy for an inclusive economy, resilient infrastructure, participatory governance, and open data. This process, however, does not have the usual features of planning. It reveals the complex dimension of smart city planning as a synthesis of technologies, user engagement, and windows of opportunity, which are fuzzy at the start of the planning process. The evolutionary features of cities, which until now were ascribed to the working of markets, are now shaping the institutional aspects of planning for smart cities.
N. Komninos; C. Kakderi; A. Panori; P. Tsarchopoulos. Smart City Planning from an Evolutionary Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology 2017, 26, 3 -20.
AMA StyleN. Komninos, C. Kakderi, A. Panori, P. Tsarchopoulos. Smart City Planning from an Evolutionary Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology. 2017; 26 (2):3-20.
Chicago/Turabian StyleN. Komninos; C. Kakderi; A. Panori; P. Tsarchopoulos. 2017. "Smart City Planning from an Evolutionary Perspective." Journal of Urban Technology 26, no. 2: 3-20.
Purpose This paper investigates the potential contribution of smart city approaches and tools to sustainable urban development in the environment domain. Recent research has highlighted the need to explore the relation of smart and sustainable cities more systematically, focusing on practical applications that could enable a deeper understanding of the included domains, typologies and design concepts, and this paper aims to address this research gap. At the same time, it tries to identify whether these applications could contribute to the “zero vision” strategy, an extremely ambitious challenge within the field of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach This objective is pursued through an in-depth investigation of available open source and proprietary smart city applications related to environmental sustainability in urban environments. A total of 32 applications were detected through the Intelligent/Smart Cities Open Source (ICOS) community, a meta-repository for smart cities solutions. The applications are analyzed comparatively regarding (i) the environmental issue addressed, (ii) the associated mitigation strategies, (iii) the included innovation mechanism, (iv) the role of information and communication technologies and (v) the overall outcome. Findings The findings suggest that the smart and sustainable city landscape is extremely fragmented both on the policy and the technical levels. There is a host of unexplored opportunities toward smart sustainable development, many of which are still unknown. Similar findings are reached for all categories of environmental challenges in cities. Research limitations pertain to the analysis of a relatively small number of applications. The results can be used to inform policy making toward becoming more proactive and impactful both locally and globally. Given that smart city application market niches are also identified, they are also of special interest to developers, user communities and digital entrepreneurs. Originality/value The value added by this paper is two-fold. At the theoretical level, it offers a neat conceptual bridge between smart and sustainable cities debate. At the practical level, it identifies under-researched and under-exploited fields of smart city applications that could be opportunities to attain the “zero vision” objective.
Margarita Angelidou; Artemis Psaltoglou; Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos; Anastasia Panori. Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications. Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management 2017, 9, 146 -169.
AMA StyleMargarita Angelidou, Artemis Psaltoglou, Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, Anastasia Panori. Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications. Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management. 2017; 9 (2):146-169.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMargarita Angelidou; Artemis Psaltoglou; Nicos Komninos; Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos; Anastasia Panori. 2017. "Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications." Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management 9, no. 2: 146-169.
This study tries to analyze and discuss the design process of a smart city application ontology for measuring multidimensional poverty at an urban scale. Starting from the links between smart city concept and human-centered development and moving on to the definition of multidimensional poverty, the literature indicates that there is a need for an orchestrated design of smart city applications for alleviating poverty in its wider sense, based on strong theoretical foundations. The study indicates that a volunteered geographic information (VGI) concept, alongside with a 3-level data structure, should be treated as integral parts of the proposed application structure that uses the human-centered theoretical approach as a baseline to alleviate poverty. The 3-level data structure encompasses a wide range of indicators, referring not only to demographic and spatiotemporal variables, but also covers all essential information for measuring multidimensional poverty index (MPI). Finally, the collected data from this application could be further exploited by local governments and policy makers, as valuable inputs for strategic planning of place-based policies. This study serves as an example of how a smart city application could be used as a tool to effectively improve human-centered policy implications on an urban scale.
Anastasia Panori; Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. Designing the Ontology of a Smart City Application for Measuring Multidimensional Urban Poverty. Journal of the Knowledge Economy 2017, 10, 921 -940.
AMA StyleAnastasia Panori, Christina Kakderi, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. Designing the Ontology of a Smart City Application for Measuring Multidimensional Urban Poverty. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 2017; 10 (3):921-940.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Panori; Christina Kakderi; Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos. 2017. "Designing the Ontology of a Smart City Application for Measuring Multidimensional Urban Poverty." Journal of the Knowledge Economy 10, no. 3: 921-940.
This paper builds upon the EU2020 strategy, following the smart and inclusive growth paradigm, that treats human capital as a central component of regional development. However, there are cases of smart growth policies, focusing on skills’ empowerment, which may not yield the expected results, in terms of social cohesion aspects. Given this fact, the role of regional specificities, such as the extent to which an economy is characterized by a knowledge-based structure, constitute essential parameters that need to be taken into consideration during a policy-design process. This study aims to provide an evidence-based sub-regional analysis to assist processes regarding place-based policy design for socio-economic inclusion, in the case of Greece. More specifically, it investigates the links between education and income inequality, at a municipal level during the period 1994–2012, using a balanced panel dataset. The results indicate a negative effect of educational level on the formation of income inequality, probably due to the lack of an advanced knowledge-based economic structure in the case of the Greek economy. The significance of incorporating local particularities in the analysis, such as human capital endowments and time-varying socio-economic disturbances, as the 2008 economic crisis, is also stressed. Finally, the econometric method used in this paper includes the development of a DSEM model estimated by a system GMM estimator.
Anastasia Panori; Yannis Psycharis. Exploring the Links Between Education and Income Inequality at the Municipal Level in Greece. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 2017, 12, 101 -126.
AMA StyleAnastasia Panori, Yannis Psycharis. Exploring the Links Between Education and Income Inequality at the Municipal Level in Greece. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 2017; 12 (1):101-126.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Panori; Yannis Psycharis. 2017. "Exploring the Links Between Education and Income Inequality at the Municipal Level in Greece." Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 12, no. 1: 101-126.
Hidden cities within a city? During the last decade there is a large trending literature concerning urban and suburban poverty concentration patterns. However, few are the cases where adequate data exist at a low spatial level, in order for scientists to explore that kind of socio-spatial phenomena. This paper tries to investigate the evolution of poverty within urban and suburban space, under a multidimensional framework, during a period of severe economic crisis and austerity measures. The metropolitan area of Athens is used as our case study, for which available data at a municipal level enable the calculation of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for the years 2006 and 2011. Using cluster analysis based on the MPI values, three groups of municipalities are derived within Athens. For each one of them, a mean MPI index is calculated and then decomposed. The results indicate that there is a clear spatial concentration of poverty in the west suburban areas of Athens. The urban core of the city is characterised by middle-income municipalities, whilst the north-east and the south-east suburban areas experience low-poverty indicators. Finally, the results suggest that during the economic crisis period poor areas were affected the most.
Anastasia Panori. A Tale of Hidden Cities. REGION 2017, 4, 19 -38.
AMA StyleAnastasia Panori. A Tale of Hidden Cities. REGION. 2017; 4 (3):19-38.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Panori. 2017. "A Tale of Hidden Cities." REGION 4, no. 3: 19-38.
Published during a severe economic crisis, this study presents the first spatial microsimulation model for the analysis of income inequalities and poverty in Greece. First, we present a brief overview of the method and discuss its potential for the analysis of multidimensional poverty and income inequality in Greece. We then present the SimAthens model, based on a combination of small-area demographic and socioeconomic information available from the Greek census of population with data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The model is based on an iterative proportional fitting (IPF) algorithm, and is used to reweight EU-SILC records to fit in small-area descriptions for Athens based on 2001 and 2011 censuses. This is achieved by using demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as constraint variables. Finally, synthesis of the labor market and occupations are chosen as the main variables for externally validating our results, in order to verify the integrity of the model. Results of this external validation process are found to be extremely satisfactory, indicating a high goodness of fit between simulated and real values. Finally, the study presents a number of model outputs, illustrating changes in social and economic geography, during a severe economic crisis, offering a great opportunity for discussing further potential of this model in policy analysis.
Anastasia Panori; Dimitris Ballas; Yannis Psycharis. SimAthens: A spatial microsimulation approach to the estimation and analysis of small area income distributions and poverty rates in the city of Athens, Greece. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 2017, 63, 15 -25.
AMA StyleAnastasia Panori, Dimitris Ballas, Yannis Psycharis. SimAthens: A spatial microsimulation approach to the estimation and analysis of small area income distributions and poverty rates in the city of Athens, Greece. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 2017; 63 ():15-25.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Panori; Dimitris Ballas; Yannis Psycharis. 2017. "SimAthens: A spatial microsimulation approach to the estimation and analysis of small area income distributions and poverty rates in the city of Athens, Greece." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 63, no. : 15-25.
Published during a severe economic crisis, this study presents the first spatial microsimulation model for the analysis of income inequalities and poverty in Greece. First, we present a brief overview of the method and discuss its potential for the analysis of multidimensional poverty and income inequality in Greece. We then present the SimAthens model, based on a combination of small-area demographic and socioeconomic information available from the Greek census of population with data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The model is based on an iterative proportional fitting (IPF) algorithm, and is used to reweigh EU-SILC records to fit in small-area descriptions for Athens based on 2001 and 2011 censuses. This is achieved by using demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as constraint variables. Finally, synthesis of the labor market and occupations are chosen as the main variables for externally validating our results, in order to verify the integrity of the model. Results of this external validation process are found to be extremely satisfactory, indicating a high goodness of fit between simulated and real values. Finally, the study presents a number of model outputs, illustrating changes in social and economic geography, during a severe economic crisis, offering a great opportunity for discussing further potential of this model in policy analysis.
Anastasia Panori; Dimitris Ballas; Yannis Psycharis. SimAthens: A spatial microsimulation approach to the estimation and analysis of small-area income distributions and poverty rates in Athens, Greece. 2016, 1 .
AMA StyleAnastasia Panori, Dimitris Ballas, Yannis Psycharis. SimAthens: A spatial microsimulation approach to the estimation and analysis of small-area income distributions and poverty rates in Athens, Greece. . 2016; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Panori; Dimitris Ballas; Yannis Psycharis. 2016. "SimAthens: A spatial microsimulation approach to the estimation and analysis of small-area income distributions and poverty rates in Athens, Greece." , no. : 1.