The Abdera Urban Plan Project (AUPP) is currently one of a few number of CIG projects in northern Greece. It is a three-year synergasia (2024-2026) between the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Canadian Institute in Greece, co-directed by Deputy Director, Maria Chrysafi (Ephorate of Antiquities of Xanthi) and Dr. Maria Papaioannou (University of New Brunswick).  The scope of this investigation is to study the urban plan of one of the earliest and wealthiest Greek colonies founded in the 7th century BC along the Thracian coast by using as a case study the “insula of houses,” the best-preserved housing block at the site. Previous studies of this insula included an architectural analysis of the remains of a Roman period peristyle house by Dr. Papaioannou (Archaeological Society of Athens and the 19th Ephorate of Classical and Prehistoric Antiquities of Komotini, 2002), followed by a study permit in 2016 (Ephorate of  Antiquity of Xanthi and CIG) to conduct a topographical survey of the entire insula using TLS with collaborator Dr. Peter Dare (University of New Brunswick). These past initiatives sparked an interest in the study of the built environment and architectural phases of the Insula of Houses from Hellenistic to Roman times, its impact on urban identities, and the various political, social and economic networks that helped shape the town plan. In 2024 geophysical surveys conducted to a depth of 2.00m revealed the remains of well-defined houses, roads, street drains, and other insulae to the west and south. Excavations in 2025 will focus on locating the road boarding the “insula of houses” to the north, establishing the width of the south road at the southwest corner of the insula, confirming the size of the insula and exposing the north wall of the Roman peristyle house.