Delos Network, Workshop 2: Delos Practices

The first workshop of the Delos Network took place at the University of Birmingham on March 17, 2018. The Delos Network is a collaborative research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council that brings together an international network of scholars, architects and planners to re-interrogate the history, legacy and impact of Constantinos Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia (1963-75). The aim of the first workshop was to investigate the ways which the urban and environmental ideals expressed in the context of the Delos Symposia related to contemporary understandings and interpretations of history, tradition and technology. For more details: https://delosnetwork.com/workshop-1-delos-ideals/ . The videos of four out of eight presentations can be viewed at the Delos Network's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVpvTnuGg1IjPSW3XEQwBbeainIVZmuuY

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MONU Magazine, 2013

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The aim of this paper is to critically assess the impact of Athens on the urban landscape of Delos in the two periods of its domination, notably 478 to 314 BC, and again after 167/6 BC, when the Romans conquered the island, declared it a free port, and gave control to the Athenians who established a cleruchy. The key question is, whether Athenian “sea power” manifested itself visibly in Delos, and how. Focus here is on the building policy, thus on permanent structures that potentially served to symbolize and commemorate Athenian power and interests. After a brief overview of the Athenian prelude in Delos in the Archaic period, whose nature and importance for the later, much more formal relationship between the two cities are debated, buildings and infrastructure measures ascribed to Athenian initiative will be discussed. The two periods require different approaches and questions, however, because the states of preservation and publication as well as the nature of Athenian involvement differed significantly.

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2005

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Ekistics and the New Habitat, 2022

The International Journal of Ekistics and the New Habitat is an online double-blind, internationally peer reviewed research journal. The journal publishes scholarly insights and reflective practice of studies and critical writing concerning the problems and science of human settlements. The field of Ekistics is mapped against a classification of settlement scale, from the remote village and rural township to global systems of dense smart cities, and increasingly the challenges of on-and-off world sustainable habitats.

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The importance of green spaces and their benefits for large urban centers is well recognized. In the basin of Athens in Greece, a built-up urban environment, the lack of environmental planning has resulted the lack of green spaces, which when present, have been introduced as an element foreign to the whole of the city, without planning or sustainable design. This paper focuses on the Environmental Awareness Park "Antonis Tritsis" in Athens, a large park (1.150 acres) that constitutes an oasis against the degraded local environment. Six artificial lakes comprise the dominant element in the Park's landscape highlighting the rare in Attica, liquid component of freshwater that attracts different types of birds, while offering one of unique beauty, recreation and walking area within the city walls. The objective of the study is to create redevelopment proposals for this special-purpose Park, targeting both the utilization of the existing structures as well as its redesignin...

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Most of the monuments included in the list of World Heritage Cultural Sites simultaneously constitute magnets for international tourism whilst at the same time being global treasures that require special conservation, in order that they may be preserved for future generations (i.e. made sustainable) and maintain their educational and social role through time. The first step in the necessary conservation of World Heritage Sites is the development and implementation of a management philosophy. The attempt to formulate the management principles of a particular site constitutes the foundation for all subsequent initiatives. In this respect, the planning process consists of three steps: 1) making an inventory of the existing resources, 2) categorising and evaluating those resources, and 3) determining the necessary properties for legislation, financing, human resources, infrastructure, conservation interpretation, and marketing (all of which are based on the evaluated inventory). A crucial step in the management procedure is the creation of a structure concerning staffing and budgeting, policies on visitor-related income, image and marketing, recording and analysing visitor as well as local population data. The case study of the Delos archaeological site is being presented in order to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of, and the opportunities and threats surrounding, one of the World Heritage Sites of greatest significance in Greece. Delos, being in the centre of the Aegean Sea, constitutes a major tourist attraction from which Greece can obtain important socio-economic benefits, which can simultaneously, with appropriate management, be accompanied by sustainable development.

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Athens Social Atlas, 2017

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Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences, 2023

The confrontation of climatic change and their reflection in cities requires a deeper understanding of the dialectic between the concepts of natural and artificial. This is a first approach to provide subsidies and conceptualization to the architectural and urban waterfront project for the city of Kalamaria. Thus, it is based on examples of the nature, philosophy, and legislation of countries such as Brazil, for a better understanding of the two concepts. It uses the idea of "NATURAL ARTIFICE" as a methodological possibility for urban intervention in Kodra Park, a place of great urban relevance for the city of Kalamaria and an important object of study related to the problems faced by coastal cities regarding global climate change.

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