Planning industrial location in Greater Athens: The interaction between deindustrialization and anti‐industrialism during the 1980s

Lost in protest, found in segregation: Divided cities in the light of the 2015 “Οχι” referendum in Greece

“…The highest social classes occupy the eastern districts while the lowest classes settle in the western part of the city e originally developed as poor industrial centres around Piraeus and now slowly changing towards medium-low income residential areas (Kourliouros, 1997). A similar spatial segregation seems to be reproduced in suburban areas, with eastern suburbs associated to the upper class and western suburbs dominated by workers in industry (Burgel, 2004).…”

Changes in city vertical profile as an indicator of sprawl: Evidence from a Mediterranean urban region

“…The specific morphological traits in the city's development have been clearly described by changes in the vertical profile (Serra & Pinho, 2011). As commonly observed in other Mediterranean and middle-east urban agglomerations, compactness and diffusion in a mono-centric city such as Athens are reflected in both informal settlement expansion and chaotic urban planning (Costa, Noble, & Pendleton, 1991;Economidou, 1993;Gospodini, 2006Gospodini, , 2009Kourliouros, 1997;Paul & Tonts, 2005;Richardson & Chang-Hee, 2004;Turok & Mykhnenko, 2007;Weber & Puissant, 2003). The use of exploratory data analysis overcame the complexity found in Mediterranean urban contexts as far as city's forms and socioeconomic conditions are concerned (Muñoz, 2003).…”

Revisiting “Southern” Sprawl: Urban Growth, Socio-Spatial Structure and the Influence of Local Economic Contexts

“…The present study suggests that sprawl outcomes are strongly associated with both economic and social issues at local scale and are influenced by territorial factors acting at wider scales. Territorial dynamics have indeed shaped the economic structure of the three cities: Barcelona's polycentric structure reflects the consolidation of urban sub-centres scattered around the central city; the metropolitan area of Rome is more entropic and morphologically "scattered", outlining the low-density settlement growth up to the 1980s (Krumholz, 1992 [35]; Salvati and De Rosa, 2014 [36]); finally, Athens maintains its role as capital city consolidating a typical mono-centric form, despite the presence of specific areas destined to low-density settlements (Leontidou, 1990 [34]; Kourliouros, 1997 [52]; Couch et al, 2007 [4]). To summarize, sprawl phenomena in the study areas are mainly related to (i) changes in the use of land destined for low-density residential settlements; (ii) changes in urban lifestyles towards social homogenization; (iii) a moderate loss of economic attractiveness of inner cities partly counterbalanced with a gaining importance of sub-centres (e.g., Catalàn et al, 2008 [22]; Chorianopoulos et al, 2010 [49]; Munafò et al, 2010 [24]).…”