Going toward Resilience? Town Planning, Peri-Urban Landscapes, and the Expansion of Athens, Greece
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Town Planning and Athens’ Expansion
2.1. Planning Athens from World War II to 1980s
2.2. The 1985 Regulatory Plan and the Intrinsic Settlement Dispersion of the 1990s
2.3. From Town Planning to Regional Planning: The 21st Century
3. Current Challenges and Future Directions
4. Concluding Remarks
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Nickayin, S.S.; Tomao, A.; Quaranta, G.; Salvati, L.; Gimenez Morera, A. Going toward Resilience? Town Planning, Peri-Urban Landscapes, and the Expansion of Athens, Greece. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10471. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410471
Nickayin SS, Tomao A, Quaranta G, Salvati L, Gimenez Morera A. Going toward Resilience? Town Planning, Peri-Urban Landscapes, and the Expansion of Athens, Greece. Sustainability. 2020; 12(24):10471. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410471
Chicago/Turabian StyleNickayin, Samaneh Sadat, Antonio Tomao, Giovanni Quaranta, Luca Salvati, and Antonio Gimenez Morera. 2020. "Going toward Resilience? Town Planning, Peri-Urban Landscapes, and the Expansion of Athens, Greece" Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10471. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410471