Builders Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens

Arts & Photography

Theocharopoulou, Ioanna

Architecture

Polis

<p>Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens reassesses the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type, the polykatoikía, and its different connotations through the decades: from a monotonous and ugly element of the city to the role it might play in the urban sustainability.\nSprawling beneath the Acropolis, modern Athens is commonly viewed in negative terms: congested, ugly and monotonous. Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens questions this stereotype, reassessing the explosive growth of postwar Athens through its most distinctive building type: the polykatoikía (a small-scale multistory apartment block).\nTheocharopoulou re-evaluates the polykatoikía as a low-tech, easily constructible innovation that stimulated the postwar urban economy, triggering the city’s social mid-twentieth-century transformation. The interiors of the polykatoikía apartments reflect a desire for modernity as marketed to housewives through film and magazines. Regular builders became unlikely allies in designing these polykatoikía interiors, enabling inhabitants to exert agency over their daily lives and the shape of the postwar city.\nThis revised edition of Theocharopoulou’s study draws on popular media as well as urban and regional planning theory, cultural studies and anthropology to examine the evolution of this phenomenon. Written in the light of Greece’s recent financial crisis, the book’s updated Postscript considers the role polykatoikía might play in building an equitable and sustainable twenty-first-century city.</p>

i glossa, ta lathi kai ta pathi / η γλώσσα, τα λάθη και τα πάθη

Education & Teaching

charis giannis i. / χάρης γιάννης η

Schools & Teaching

to roloi tis skias / το ρολόι της σκιάς

skassis thomas / σκάσσης θωμάς

mathimatika epikaira / μαθηματικά επίκαιρα

Science & Math

michailidis teukros / μιχαηλίδης τεύκρος

Mathematics

prosopikotita / προσωπικότητα

O'HAGAN, ANDREW

<p>TO BIBΛIO AYTO AΦOPA THN ΠPOΣΠAΘEIA ΓIA TON EKΣYΓXPONIΣMO THΣ XΩPAΣ THN ΠEPIOΔO 1996-2004. ANAΛYEI ΠOΛITIKEΣ, EΞIΣTOPEI ΓEΓONOTA, ΠAPOYΣIAZEI AΠOTEΛEΣMATA, EΠIΣHMAINEI AΔYNAMIEΣ KAI ΠPOTEINEI KATEYΘYNΣEIΣ ΓIA TO MEΛΛON.O ΠOΛITHΣ XPEIAZETAI NA ΞEPEI TO XTEΣ ΓIA NA KPINEI TO ΣHMEPA KAI NA KAΘOPIZEI TH ΣTAΣH TOY AYPIO.TO BIBΛIO AΠOTEΛEITAI AΠO TA EΞHΣ KEΦAΛAIA:KEΦAΛAIO A. H EKKINHΣHKEΦAΛAIO B. TO EPΓO I. H ΠOΛITIKH ΓIA THN EIPHNH KAI THN AΣΦAΛEIA II. H ΠOΛITIKH ΓIA TH ΣTAΘEPOTHTA KAI THN ANAΠTYΞH III. O EKΣYΓXPONIΣMOΣ TOY KPATOYΣ IV. H ΠOΛITIKH ΓIA MIA KOINΩNIA THΣ ΠAIΔEIAΣ KAI TOY ΠOΛITIΣMOY V. OI OΛYMΠIAKOI AΓΩNEΣKEΦAΛAIO Γ. ΠOΛITIKO ΣYΣTHMA KAI ΠOΛITIKO ΠEPIBAΛΛONKEΦAΛAIO Δ. O TEPMATIΣMOΣKEΦAΛAIO E.</p>

politiki gia mia dimiourgiki ellada 1996-2004

simitis konstantinos g. / σημίτης κωνσταντίνος γ

i krisi / η κρίση

kati tha ginei, tha deis / κάτι θα γίνει, θα δεις

oikonomou christos 1970- / οικονόμου χρήστος 1970

thymamai / θυμάμαι

petsa vasiliki / πέτσα βασιλική

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