Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1908967870 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Regular builders became unlikely allies in designing these polykatoikia interiors, enabling inhabitants to exert agency over their daily lives and the shape of the post-war city.Theocharopoulou's reading draws on popular media as well as urban and regional planning theory, cultural studies and anthropology to examine the evolution of this phenomenon and, in light of Greece's recent financial crisis, considers the role polykatoikia might play in building an equitable and sustainable twenty-first-century city.. A Mediterranean version of "informal" urbanism prevalent throughout the so-called developing world, Builde
Ioanna Theocharopoulou is an architectural historian who teaches at the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design in New York
About the Author Ioanna Theocharopoulou is an architectural historian who teaches at the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design in New York