Living in Diversity, Spatial Transformations towards the multicultural deprived inner city neighborhoods of Athens

Living in Diversity, Spatial Transformations towards the multicultural deprived inner city neighborhoods of Athens

Tzika-Kostopoulou, Panagiota (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Calabrese, Luisa (mentor)
Qu, Lei (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

2018-06-10

Our current cities, especially the metropolitan ones are becoming more and more diverse. According to literature diversity and tolerance are considered as a key aspects for economic prosperity (R. Florida,2011). However reality proves another aspect, since neighborhoods where diversity prevails are usually characterized as deprived, an aspect that has a great impact on how inhabitants of an area perceive and interact with one another (L. Ahmadi,2017). The inner city of Athens, in contrary to most European cities that concentration of ethnic minorities and deprivation is an aspect that mostly refers to areas that are usually not well connected, it presents the aformentioned characteristics in its inner city neighborhoods, an aspect that results from a continuous movement of population that has shaped and re-shaped the city. This project, by using Victoria neighborhood as a study case aims at providing the tools for public space, in the dense built environment of Athens, to facilitate co- existence between different cultures and social groups.

diversity
deprivation
co-existence

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:12c80186-e1e1-4e72-b364-f6f2d5c04eb6

Student theses

master thesis

© 2018 Panagiota Tzika-Kostopoulou