香港六合彩

Research Title

Planning Deviations, Institutional Persistence, and Efforts to Regulate Urban Development in Bucharest

More about Varvara

Education

• PhD in Human Geography, University College London. Working title: 鈥淧lanning Deviations, Institutional Persistence, and Efforts to Regulate Urban Development in Bucharest鈥澨�(2021-ongoing)
• MSc in Urbanisation and Development, London School of Economics and Political sciences. Final dissertation: 鈥淢ining-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR): From technical notions to the socioeconomic impacts on affected communities in Northern Greece鈥� (2017 - 2018)
• Diploma Degree in Architecture (BArch and MArch), Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. Diploma Research Thesis: 鈥淭he social and spatial impact of the Power Public Corporation (PPC) in Greece. The cost of lignite mining activities on local settlements and communities.鈥� Diploma Design Thesis: 鈥淩egional and urban development strategies as a response to climate challenges: Designing for eco-touristic development in mining-affected areas.鈥� (2011 - 2017)

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Teaching

I've been involved in the following teaching:听

• 香港六合彩 Human Geography Summer School. 鈥淭he multiplicity of urban: Understanding the cities, we inhabit.鈥� (2023)
• Global Urbanism: Theory and Politics (URBL0001) - Global Urbanism MASc, 香港六合彩 Urban Laboratory, Bartlett
• East London Lab (URBL0003) - 听Global Urbanism MASc, 香港六合彩 Urban Laboratory, Bartlett

Publications

Conferences-Presentations

• Urban Affairs Association International Conference 2024, New York
• Socially Just Planning Doctoral Network Seminar Series, The Bartlett, 香港六合彩, Presentation: Urban planning and development processes in Eastern Europe, February 2024
• Guest Lecturer, RECOURSE seminar 2024 - Department of Socio-Economic Geography, University of Gdansk, January 2024
• Guest lecturer in Global Urbanism: Theory and Politics module, Urban Lab, The Bartlett, 香港六合彩, December 2023.
• RSA Winter Conference 2023, London 鈥� Paper Presentation: Karipidou, V. 鈥楽tate Effects and Political Contestations: Understanding Urban Planning and Development Processes in Eastern Europe's Decentralized Governance鈥�. Presented in RSA Winter Conference 2023, London, 9 Nov. 鈥� 10 Nov. 2023.
• PhD upgrade conference 2023, 香港六合彩 Dept. of Geography, London 鈥� Conference Chairing:听Chairing the first session of the PhD Upgrade Conference organised by the Dept. of Geography along with Hamish Gibbs, 香港六合彩, London, 11 Oct. 2023.
• RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023, London听- Session Convenor: 'Governing the urban age: Transcalar power relations, state effects and the institutionalisation of public authority'.
• RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023, London听鈥撎齈aper Presentation: Karipidou, V. 'Planning Deviations, Institutional Persistence, and Efforts to Regulate Urban Development in Bucharest, Romania'. Presented in RGS-IBG 2023, London, 30 Aug.听鈥� 1 Sep.听2023.
• Cities After Transition 鈥� 10th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference 2023, Riga- Session Convenor: 鈥楨merging processes of place-making:听The production of space and the multiplicity of actors involved in cities after the transition.鈥�
• 鈥楢 state in process: Negotiated state practices in urban development and social movements鈥櫶齋eminar 鈥� 香港六合彩 Geography, June 2022听鈥� Research Presentation
• Workshop for Making Africa Urban: Revisiting the Negotiated State 鈥� 香港六合彩, May 2023:听鈥楽tate-effects and Urban Planning鈥� 鈥� Presentation
• 鈥楾he negotiated state鈥� Panel Discussion 鈥� 香港六合彩, February 2023:听鈥楾he emergence of state effects and negotiated state practices in the context of Eastern Europe鈥� 鈥� Presentation.

Research Interests

Having Bucharest as a case study, the research aims to explore the functioning and politics of urban development processes in Eastern Europe after democratisation, by closely linking the emergence of a new state formation with the evolution of planning processes. It will do so by identifying the actually existing associational networks that shape planning procedures, rather than focusing solely on the formal planning institutions and mechanisms regulating planning.

These associational networks shape planning in two parallel ways: through motivating planning deviations and through the multiple political, legal, and administrative processes that intersect with the legal planning framework. The study is mainly engaged with issues around the nature of the state, power, and the networked character of planning practice through exploring the materiality of their interaction and the spatial effects produced.

Research Grants Prizes and Awards

• Next Economy Trust Fellowship听(2024)
• Frank Carter Travel Award for research in Eastern Europe (2023)