Reclaiming the Greek Polis

Reclaiming the Greek Polis: The case of Kavala

Papaioannou, A.

Calabrese, L.M. (mentor)
Colombo, F.F. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

Urban Fabrics

2016-06-24

The project is analyzing, evaluating and proposing solutions on the current planning sector in Greece. It is using the city of Kavala as an example of intervention, in order to experiment the outcomes of a new suggestion of design and planning tools. The research started by analyzing the Greek historical and socio-political context. Starting with the fundamental ideals about Plato’s Polis and the way Greece has been developed by its planning history, the project presents the way, in which the Greeks have been diverged from the classical ideals and became very private persons. However, recent history showed that people are seeking for more responsibilities as there is a big mistrust to the very centralized political system. On top of these, the current economic crisis gives even more “food for thought” concerning how public projects should be developed. The goal of the project is to bring resilience into the process of execution. In order to activate the local community into taking actions in the design/decision making, as well as executing, a workshop with citizens and stakeholders took place during the design period of the Thesis. The design itself is consisting of a permanent implementation, executed in the different phases of the project and used as a base for more temporary implementations, according to the area’s and the city’s needs. The local community will be able to use the offered public space as a platform for multiple uses, and create a new kind of destination for recreation, sports, culture and slow tourism.

Kavala
Greece
waterfront
urban design
economic crisis
tourism
participatory design
resilience
workshop

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2016 A. Papaioannou