Dimitra Kanellopoulou is an architect-engineer (National Technical University of Athens) with a master’s degree in urban planning (École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) and a PhD in human geography (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Since 2019 she holds the position of Assistant Professor (maître de conférences) at the ENSA Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture. Her research focus on urban walking, public space and soft mobility issues applied to spatial planning using both quantitative and qualitative methods and a variety of perspectives (economic, sociological, psychological) to study this area. Her teaching experience include topics of urban planning theory, planning regulation and practice, city branding, human geography and fieldwork methodology. She is a member of the Research Laboratory LIAT at the ENSAPM and an associate member at the UMR 8504 Géographie-cités in Paris. Her PhD thesis (2015) focused on the experiences of pedestrians, public space planning policies and urban practices in the historical center of Athens (Greece).
Since 2014, she taught in different international contexts: at the Institute of Research and Higher Education Studies in Tourism of Paris (IREST, Paris) and at the UEMF (Fez, Morocco), at the Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris (EUP), at the Harokopio University of Athens (International Master Program (MSc) «Sustainable Tourism Development: Cultural Heritage, Environment, Society). Since 2020 she also lectures at the UFR Géographie-Aménagement of Sorbonne Université in Paris. In 2018 she created "POLITOPIA walking - cities" (www.politopia.eu) a design office collaborating with several stakeholders of urban planning projects on issues of public space design, public consultation and urban planning policies.

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