Zacharias (Zachos) Valiantzas is a PhD student in Human Geography at the Spatial Planning and Development department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a researcher. His PhD topic of interest is ” Migration, otherness and the “right to the city”: practices of inhabitance and the lived ambience of urban space”.He also holds the Master’s degree “Spatial planning for sustainable and resilient development”. His master thesis is about “Urban ambience : Dominant uses and heterogeneities in the port of Thessaloniki. A sociospatial and ethnographic analysis”. He is also a graduate of the Department of Economics of University of Thessaly. He is a research fellow of the Laboratory for the Study of Collective Practices for Space and Development (Co-SPACE) in AUTH. His recent research explores the collective practices of inhabitance and the creation of lived ambience in the urban fabric. His research interests also focus on migration, otherness and the right to the city.
email: zaxosvaliantz@gmail.com
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