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Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California Department Chair
Professor of Urban Planning
Phone: (310) 206-9679
Campus Extension: x69679
sideris@ucla.edu |
Professor Loukaitou-Sideris' research focuses on the public environment of the city, its physical representation, aesthetics, social meaning and impact on the urban resident. Her work seeks to integrate social and physical issues in urban planning and architecture. An underlying theme of her work is its "user focus"; that is, she seeks to analyze and understand the built environment from the perspective of those who live and work there.
Dr. Loukaitou-Sideris' research includes documentation and analysis of the social and physical changes that have occurred in the public realm; cultural determinants of design and planning and their implications for public policy; quality-of-life issues for inner city residents; transit security, and urban design and transportation issues.
Recent and ongoing projects, funded in part by the U.S. and California Departments of Transportation, the Haynes Foundation and the Mineta Transportation Institute, include: an examination of the privatization of public open space in major American downtown areas to document the effects of redevelopment on their built form and social context; documentation of varying patterns of use of neighborhood parks among different ethnic groups; proposals for the physical and economic retrofit of blighted inner city commercial corridors, examination of the impacts of new rail transit lines, creation of guidelines for the development of transit station neighborhoods; and studies of transit security.
She has served as a consultant to the Transportation Research Board, Federal Highway Administration, Southern California Association of Governments, South Bay Cities Council of Government, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, the Greek Government, and many municipal governments on issues of urban design, open space development, land use and transportation, and she has been recently commissioned to author research papers by the National Academies and the Roger Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Loukaitou-Sideris is the author of numerous articles, the co-author of the book Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form (University of California Press, 1998), the co-editor of the book Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities (Temple University Press, 2006). She is currently working on a book about the social uses of sidewalks to be published by the MIT Press.
Selected Publications:
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Ehrenfeucht, R. Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space, MIT Press (2009).
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. with Bornstein, A., Fink, C., Samuels, L. How to Ease Women’s Fear of Transportation Environments: Case Studies and Best Practices. San Jose: Mineta Transportation Institute (2009)
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Fink, C. “Addressing Women’s Fear of Victimization in Transportation Settings: A Survey of US Transit Agencies,” Urban Affairs Review, 44: 554-587 (2009).
Cherry, C., Loukaitou-Sideris, A., and Wachs, M. “Subway Station Design and Management: Lessons from Case Studies of Contemporary Terrorist Incidents,” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol. 25, No.1, pp. 76-90 (2008).
Loukaitou-Sideris, A., Liggett, R., and Sung, H.G. “Death on the Crosswalk: A Study of Pedestrian – Automobile Collisions in Los Angeles,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 26(3): 338-351 (2007).
Grodach, C. and Loukaitou-Sideris, A. “Cultural Development Strategies and Urban Revitalization: A Survey of U.S. Cities” International Journal of Cultural Policy, 13:4, pp. 349-370 (2007).
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Eck, J. “Crime Prevention and Active Living,” American Journal of Health Promotion, 21(4): 380-389 (2007).
Ong, P. and Loukaitou-Sideris, A. (Eds.), Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities. Temple University Press (2006).
Taylor, B, Loukaitou-Sideris, Liggett, R., Fink, C., Wachs, M., Cavanagh, E., Cherry, C., and Haas, P. Designing and Operating Safe and Secure Transit Systems: Assessing Current Practices in the U.S. and Abroad, San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute (2006). (PDF) (HTML)
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. “Is It Safe to Walk? Neighborhood Safety and Security Considerations and their Effects on Walking,” Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp.219-232, (2006).
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Gottlieb, R. “A Road as a Route and Place: Evolution and Transformation of the Arroyo Seco Parkway,” California History, Vol.83, No. 1, pp. 28-40, (2005).
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and Grodach, C. “Displaying and Celebrating the ‘Other’: A Study of the Mission, Scope, and Roles of Ethnic Museums in Los Angeles,” Public Historian, Vol. 26:4, pp.49-71. (2004).
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. (guest editor). Studying and Understanding Ethnic Landscapes. Special issue of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol. 19:4, (2002).
Loukaitou-Sideris, A., R. Liggett, and H. Iseki, “The Geography of Transit Crime: Documentation and Evaluation of Crime Incidence on and around Green Line Stations in Los Angeles,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 22:2, pp.135-151, (2002).
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. "Hot Spots of Bus Stop Crime: The Importance of Environmental Attributes," Journal of the American Planning Association, 65:4, pp. 395-411, (1999).
Loukaitou-Sideris, A. and T. Banerjee, Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form, Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press (1998)
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