Dr.-Ing. Julita Skodra

Profilbild: Dr. Julita Skodra
Profilbild: Dr. Julita Skodra

Social Epidemiology

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Research interests

Sustainable, climate-resilient and health-promoting urban development; urban transformation, socio-economic vulnerability and environmental justice; public participation in planning processes

Postdoc in the research cluster Healthy City

 

Research Focuses

  • Co-designing public space: in policy and practice, Research team: Julita Skodra (Head of project); Stefanie Dreger
  • An integrated small-scale monitoring concept: Supporting decision-making for healthy and sustainable urban development, Research team: Gabriele Bolte (Head of project); Julita Skodra

 

Memberships

  • Association of European Schools of Planning - AESOP YA Network
  • International Society of City and Regional Planners - ISOCARP

 

 

 

 

Professional Career

Since 2022
Postdoc and research coordinator of the Research Cluster “Healthy City Bremen”, University of Bremen, Faculty 11

2014 - 2022
Researcher, Institute for Urban Public Health, University Hospital Essen

2012 - 2014
Doktoral candidate, Institute for Urban Planning and Urban Design, University of Duisburg-Essen

2011 - 2012
Internship, id:22 - Institute for creative sustainability, Berlin

2004 - 2011
Architect and urban planner in Montenegro and Greece

 

Academic Career

2012 - 2018
Doctor of engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

2010 - 2012
Master of Science Urban Management, TU Berlin, Deutschland

1995 - 2002
Diploma in Architectural Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia

 

Projects

Co-designing Public Space: In Policy and Practice
Research Team: Julita Skodra (Head of project); Stefanie Dreger

An integrated small-scale monitoring concept: Supporting decision-making for healthy and sustainable urban development
Research Team: Gabriele Bolte (Head of project); Julita Skodra

 

Publications

 
Journal Articles reviewed

Dunker E, Harms F, Keil M, Moser J, Skodra J, Wendt L. Kommunale Gesundheitsförderung und Gesunde-Städte Ansatz. Public Health Forum. 2024;32(3): 186-188. https://doi.org/10.1515/pubhef-2024-0066

Herranz-Pascual K, Garcia-Pérez I, Zorita S, García-Madruga C, Cantergiani C, Skodra J, Iraurgi I. A Proposal of a Tool to Assess Psychosocial Benefits of Nature-Based Interventions for Sustainable Built Environment, Sustainability. 2023, 15, 8046. Link

Schröder J, Moebus S, Skodra J. Selected Research Issues of Urban Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (9), doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095553, Link

Skodra J. From deprived to healthy neighbourhoods? Urban regeneration of deprived neighbourhoods in metropolitan regions', Cities & Health. 2019, Link

 

Journal Articles not reviewed

Moebus S, Skodra J, Sutcliffe R. Urban Public Health? Ohne HiaP nicht denkbar, Public Health Forum. 2020, 28(3), pp. 195-197

Paldan K, Skodra J, Paldan P, Herrmanny K, Dogangün A. Urban Health mAPP. Weyers, B. & Dittmar, A. (Hrsg.) Mensch und Computer 2016 – Workshopband. 2016,  Aachen: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Download/PDF

 

Book Articles

Skodra J, Connop S, Tacnet J-M, van Cauwenbergh N et al. Principles guiding NBS performance and impact evaluation. in: Dumitru A, Wendling L (Eds.) Evaluating the Impact of Nature-based Solutions: A Handbook for Practitioners. 2021. Brussels: European Commission. DOI 10.2777/244577, Link

Wendling L, Dumitru A, Arnbjerg-Nielsen K, Baldacchini C, Connop S, Dubovik M, Fermoso J, Hölscher K, Nadim F, Pilla F, Renaud F, Rhodes M L, San José E, Sánchez R, Skodra J, Tacnet J-M, Zulian G. et al. Indicators of NBS performance and impact. in: Dumitru A, Wendling L (Eds.) Evaluating the Impact of Nature-based Solutions: A Handbook for Practitioners. 2021. Brussels: European Commission. DOI 10.2777/244577, Link

Skodra J. Sustainable housing – New model of housing for the International Building Exhibition in Berlin. in: Paquot T, Masson-Zanussi Y, Stathopoulos M (Eds.) Alterarchitectures, Manifesto: observatory of innovative architectural and urban processes in Europe. 2012. Gollion: Eterotopia / Infolio, pp. 70-71

 

Further Publications

Amatya P, Nabavi SH, Skodra J. Buildings. in: Zehner et al. (Eds.) Off the Beaten Track: Urban Regeneration of Hidden World Heritage in L'viv (Ukraine). 2012, pp. 34-41, available: www.urbanmanagement.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/f6_urbanmanagement/Study_Course/student_work/UM_Report_Lviv_2.pdf

Linderkamp E, Nabavi SH, Skodra J. Economic and Physical Improvement of Dobrobut Market. in: Zehner et al. (Eds.) Off the Beaten Track: Urban Regeneration of Hidden World Heritage in L'viv (Ukraine). 2012, pp. 123-131, available: www.urbanmanagement.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/f6_urbanmanagement/Study_Course/student_work/UM_Report_Lviv_2.pdf

     

    Presentations / Poster

    Skodra J, Wissel C, Bolte G. Healthy, just and sustainable city: A theoretical framework for a small-scale urban health monitoring concept, AESOP Congress Integrated Planning in the World of Turbulence. 2023, Lodz, Polen,13-15 Juli 2023

    Skodra J, Zorita S, Garcia Perez I, Moebus S. Co-creating nature-based solutions for healthy and sustainable cities: Urban public health approach. European Journal of Public Health. 2020, 30 (Supplement_5), https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.234

    Skodra J. Creating Health-Promoting Neighborhoods: Urban Regeneration of Deprived Neighborhoods in Metropolitan Regions. AESOP Congress Planning for Transition. 2019, Venice, 9-13 July 2019

    Skodra J. Urban Transformation of Deprived Neighborhoods in Metropolitan Regions: The Cases of Greater Manchester and the Ruhr Metropolitan Region, 51th ISOCARP Congress. 2015, Dortmund/Rotterdam, 19-23 October

    Skodra J. Emscher Conversion and Quality of Life, 50th ISOCARP Congress. 2014, Gdynia, 23-26 September