Taking Action: Transforming Athens’ Urban Landscapes

Published by JOVIS Verlag GmbH 2023

Taking Action

Transforming Athens’ Urban Landscapes

Edited by: Norbert Kling , Tasos Roidis and Mark Michaeli

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783986120139

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English edition with Greek abstracts / Englische Ausgabe mit griechischen Abstracts

Taking Action brings into focus the sustainable design of urban transformation and the preparation of densely-structured urban spaces for future challenges. How can climate change and spatial inequalities be tackled under crisis conditions and in view of limited spatial and other resources? How can we relate our ambitious and broadly defined goals to the reality of local conditions and everyday spaces? How can knowledge be translated into action?
While basic spatial relations are currently being renegotiated in cities throughout Europe, it is in Athens that some of the most pressing urban problems have been crystallized in order to establish unique spaces of experimentation. Approaching these multi-dimensional questions from different perspectives, the authors seek to identify possible sites of intervention, suggest new models of transformation, and unleash the potential in urban landscapes as a means of stimulating positive urban change.

Author / Editor information

Norbert Kling is a researcher at the Chair of Sustainable Urbanism at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and partner at the practice zectorarchitects with offices in London and Munich. He trained as an architect and urban designer and holds a doctorate from the Department of Architecture at TUM. His research interests include conditions of asymmetric urban change and alternative spatial practices, as well as questions of concept formation, method, and process in the spatial and design disciplines.

Tasos (Anastasios) Roidis is an architect and landscape architect who graduated from ETH Zurich. He is a research and teaching associate at the Chair of Sustainable Urbanism at TUM, and previously worked at ETH Zurich’s Urban Think-Tank. He explores strategies for more sustainable and livable futures in urban and peri-urban areas using the urban landscape of Athens and its many generic patterns as a case study. His practice is focused on the interdependencies between architecture, landscape, and public space.

Mark Michaeli is Professor for Sustainable Urbanism at the School of Engineering and Design at TUM. Since graduating from ETH Zurich with a degree in architecture, he has focused on research and teaching on sustainable urbanization and transformation strategies, as well as on designs for metropolitan peripheries, peri-urban zones, and rural areas. He has contributed to and been involved with the foundation of numerous research networks and programs, including SEC Future Cities Lab Singapore, EIT Climate-KIC, horizon2020, and the DFG-sponsored Urban Green Infrastructure doctoral program, as well as the Urban Age and Open City research projects.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	14
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Πρόλογος Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Introduction
Taking Action: Working Towards Positive Urban Change Norbert Kling, Tasos Roidis and Mark Michaeli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Εισαγωγή Αναλαμβάνοντας Δράση: Προς μια Θετική Αστική Αλλαγή Norbert Kling, Τάσος Ροΐδης and Mark Michaeli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Reading and Conceptualising Spaces of Urban Transformation
Re-Imagining Processes of Urban Transformation: A Thousand Green Deals Mark Michaeli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
The Polykatoikia: An Osmosis of Public and Private Spaces Richard Woditsch and Mark Kammerbauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Catalyst of Urban Transformation: The “Inner-Urban Landscapes” Concept Tasos Roidis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Streetscape Essentials Kris Scheerlinck and Gitte Schreurs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Learning from @Omonoia: On the Development of Athenian Public Space through Media Panos Dragonas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Μελετώντας και Νοηματοδο- τώντας Χώρους Αστικού Μετασχηματισμού Mark Michaeli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Approaching and Framing Situations of Change
The Issue of Taking Action and the City of Athens Panayotis Tournikiotis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Visions and Local Knowledge: The Urban Everyday as Space of Change Norbert Kling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Facing Athens’ Urban Heritage Paradox: An Abandoned Building Stock as Common(s)? Christos-Georgios Kritikos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Being an Athenian; or, Who are we Planning for? Konstantina Georgiadou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Digitally Assisted Community Mapping Vasiliki Geropanta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
#recording_the_city. Bougada: An Alternative Way of Mapping Victoria Square Theodora Malamou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Προσεγγίζοντας και Δια- μορφώνοντας Καταστάσεις Αλλαγής Παναγιώτης Τουρνικιώτης Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Negotiating and Realising Change – Taking Action
Participatory Processes in Integrated Territorial Development: A Case of Co-Managing Water Commons Eirini Iliopoulou and Vasilis Avdikos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Athens’ Natural Capital: Aiming for 2030 Elissavet Bargianni and Grammatiki Papazoglou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Re-Thinking the Planning Process in Athens: Actors, Governance, Public Space and Planning Culture Dimitris Poulios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Futureproofing Greek Cities: Old Tools are not Enough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
The Ecological Semiotics of Air Pollution and Heat in Athens Jon Goodbun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Josep Bohigas and Ioanna Spanou: Winning, Losing and Regaining Barcelona’s Urban Spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
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Debating Athens' Futures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
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Language: English
Publisher: JOVIS Verlag GmbH
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 137 farb. und s/w Abb.
Keywords: urban planning; Inner Urban Landscape; transformation potential; densely structured urban space; crisis management; urban spaces of everyday life; water management; urban inequality; urban cityscape; mediated representation of urban space; artistic intervention

eBook

Published: June 19, 2023
ISBN: 9783986120139

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Published: June 19, 2023
ISBN: 9783868598704