Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Greek-American academic (born 1958) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]