Loukas Triantis studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), urban geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc LSE) and acquired his PhD in urban and regional planning from NTUA. Since 2022 he teaches urban design, urban and spatial planning, and urban geography at the Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), while in the past he has taught graduate and post-graduate courses at the Schools of Architecture in NTUA and the Technical University of Crete (TUC). He has practiced urban planning in Greece and abroad (2009-2015), and has worked as a policy consultant for central and local governments in Greece. He worked as a researcher and coordinator of the LSE Athens Urban Age Task Force (2020-2022). He has been involved in several research programmes in NTUA, TUC, and LSE Cities. He is the author of the book ‘Spatial planning, institutional reforms and globalization. Politics of international development during the post-socialist transition in Albania’ (2020). He has been a Board member (2019-2022) and vice-president (2022-today) of the Greek Association of Urban and Regional Planners.
Research interests
- Social, political, and institutional aspects of spatial planning, development, and governance.
- Methodologies and epistemologies of planning and urbanism in the era of globalisation, in the Global North, the Global South, and the post-socialist countries.
- Processes of the production and development of space, land, and property issues, urbanisation, social dynamics, formal and informal practices.
- Environmental and climate aspect of planning, issues of vulnerability, risks, and disasters.
- Interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches in urban geography and sociology, theories of/for planning, and qualitative research methodologies.
