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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