Kostas Mouratidis

• Presentation
• Research outputs

Kostas Mouratidis is Associate Professor in the Section for Geography, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen. He is a member of the research group Transformation of Cities and Landscapes.

Profile: https://ign.ku.dk/english/employees/all-employees-ign/?pure=en/persons/779728

Thematic areas: urban mobility and urban social sustainability.

Urban mobility:
- Sustainable mobility
- Urban mobility and well-being & travel satisfaction in cities
- Emerging mobility and the built environment
- Shared mobility: bike-sharing, car-sharing, e-scooter sharing, ride-hailing
- Autonomous vehicles & autonomous public transport
- Virtual mobility (e.g. telework, online education, online shopping), ICT and urban transport
- Walkability in cities
- Land use and travel behavior

Urban social sustainability:
- Urban planning and quality of life, livable cities, livable neighborhoods
- Cities and subjective well-being, neighborhood satisfaction, housing satisfaction
- Urban vitality
- Social relationships and social cohesion in cities
- Socio-spatial equity, neighborhood effects, assessments of local social sustainability
- Perceptions and experiences in urban spaces
- Pandemic-resilient city planning

Methodological expertise:
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- Statistical analysis (structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, regression models)
- Survey research
- Qualitative interviews & focus groups
- Mixed methods research
- Theory development and testing
- Experiments with Virtual Reality technology

Projects:

ELABORATOR - Τhe European Living Lab on designing sustainable urban mobility towards climate-neutral cities, 2023-2027 https://www.elaborator-project.eu/

WALKMORE - Making people walk more in small Norwegian cities, 2020-2024 https://www.toi.no/project-walkmore/

SOSLOKAL – Social sustainability as a new driving force in local community development, 2020-2024 https://www.sunnekommuner.no/kunnskapslaboratoriet/sosial-baerekraft

App Cities: New urban technologies, daily travel, and quality of life, 2019-2023 https://www.facebook.com/appcities/

REPLAN – Replanning neighborhoods: The influence of the built environment on quality of life in Thessaloniki and Oslo, 2020-2022 https://www.facebook.com/cities.greece

ECASS - European Cities Against School Segregation, 2019-2022 https://www.ecass.eu/

UrbanPGS - The importance of private green spaces for urban planning. A case study from Oslo, 2017-2019

Compact city or sprawl? The role of urban form in subjective well-being, 2015-2018

Kostas Mouratidis academic profiles:

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=a2OY72QAAAAJ&hl=en

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kostas-Mouratidis-4

LinkedIn profile: https://dk.linkedin.com/in/kostas-mouratidis