Upgrading potential of the greek cities urban tissue and the role of the active city blocks renewal tool

Abstract

This thesis is grounded on the findings that greek cities lie in a disadvantageous position within the European urban network, in terms of competition, sustainability and growth. At the same time, Greek cities (even the middle-sized ones) have reached a critical point of significant devalorization of the urban environment, where all available urban planning legislative tools just recycle the same problems and lead to the same dead-ends. For a variety of reasons, one of these tools was never acknowledged. The “Active City Blocks” urban renewal tool and all other similar to it are able to play a leading role in rejuvenating the urban tissue. After a brief and concise presentation of the existing law, social and morphological frame of urban design in the greek cities, the thesis displays a number of indicative urban renewal projects from Greece and Europe, researches the Active City Block tool failing reasons and argues on its actual advantages and disadvantages. Grouping and encoding the ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/18894
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/18894
ND
18894
Alternative title
Δυνατότητες αναβάθμισης του ιστού των ελληνικών αστικών κέντρων: ο ρόλος του ενεργού οικοδομικού τετραγώνου
Author
Kyriazis, A.
Date
2008
Degree Grantor
Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Committee members
Καραμάνου-Ροδολάκη Ζωή
Δράγκος Ιωάννης
Μαλινδρέτος Μιχαήλ
Παπαμίχος Νίκος
Αναστασιάδης Άγις
Τεντοκάλη Ευαγγελία
Λαλένης Κωνσταντίνος
Discipline
Engineering and Technology
Other Engineering and Technologies
Keywords
City block; Active; Urban renewal; Backyard; Urban planning; Participation
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
417 σ., ind.
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