Going toward Resilience? Town Planning, Peri-Urban Landscapes, and the Expansion of Athens, Greece

Sustainability

Antonio Gimenez Morera¹  Antonio Tomao²  Luca Salvati³  Giovanni Quaranta⁴  SamanehSadat Nickayin⁵ 

[1] Departamento de Economia y Ciencias Sociales, Universitat Politècnica de València, Cami de Vera s/n, ES-46022 València, Spain;Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia, Via S. Camillo de Lellis, s.n.c., I-01100 Viterbo, Italy;Department of Economics and Law, University of Macerata, Via Armaroli 43, I-62100 Macerata, Italy;Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Economics Department, University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, I-85100 Potenza, Italy;Planning and Design Faculty, Agricultural University of Iceland, Hvanneyri, 311 Borgarbyggð, Iceland;

关键词: strategic master plan;    urban expansion;    demographic pressure;    green belt;    green infrastructure;    Greece;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su122410471

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The long-term expansion and the evolution of town planning of a contemporary European metropolis (Athens, Greece) has been analysed in this study in order to evaluate how sustainable urban growth has been taken into account in sequential strategic master plans. During the last decades, the mostly unplanned urban growth and massive housing construction have favoured a slow evolution towards a less compact and mono-centric spatial asset, typical of several Mediterranean cities. Despite efforts to guide urban growth, a series of structural challenges have remained: (i) a gap between planning and implementation; (ii) a gap between spatial planning and socio-economic planning; (iii) a relevant pressure on natural environment; (iv) a lack of participatory planning. In order to face these problems, current strategies for the city of Athens try to foster city resilience providing guidelines for more sustainable management of the built and natural landscape. In particular, the Resilience Strategy for 2030 proposes a list of actions to improve the well-being of citizens and to increase sustainability at the urban and territorial levels. A major role was given to the enhancement of the environmental quality of the metropolitan area and to the involvement of inhabitants in the various phases of decision-making.

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