Social Practices and City Spaces (PDF)

Kyriaki Tsoukala is Professor Emerita at the School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She received the title of doctorate of Social Sciences, as well as the title of doctorate of Urban Geography from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and also holds the title of Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the University of Paris X-Nanterre in the Organisation of Space. Tsoukala has published numerous articles in scientific and architectural journals and books in Greece, France and the United Kingdom. Key topics of focus include: the link between architecture and the human sciences and philosophy; places of the upbringing of children and youth; the affiliation between the child-urban spaces; and the theories of Socio-Psychology of Space. She has written the following books: Trends in School Architecture-From the child centered functionality to the postmodern approach (1997, Thessaloniki/Paratiritis, in Greek), L'image de la ville chez l'enfant (2001, Paris/Anthropos-Economica), Les territoires urbains de l'enfant (2007, Paris/L'Harmattan), Child urban territories, Architecture and mental representations (2005, Athens/Gutenerg, in Greek), Urbanisation and Identity (2009, Thessaloniki/Epikentro, in Greek), Fluid Space and Reflective Counterpoints on Education (2015, Thessaloniki/Epikentro, in Greek), Fluid Space and Transformational Learning (2017, London/Routledge) and Body and Architecture (2023, Thessaloniki/Epikentro, in Greek).