Urbanisation et patrimoine culturel: Athènes face aux jeux olympiques de 2004

• Autores: Thomas Maloutas, Alex Deffner
• Localización: Géocarrefour: Revue de géographie de Lyon, ISSN 0035-113X, Vol. 77, Nº. 4, 2002 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La Grèce aujourd' hui), págs. 353-358
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Athens was a small settlement when it was chosen as capital in 1834. Its growth has been very rapid and today the city has more than 4 million inhabitants. Rural migration towards the capital has not resulted from industrialisation, but rather from the growth of the tertiary sector and the difficulties of the agricultural economy. In the absence of social housing, autoconstruction and the compensation system in the form of housing offered to the owners of building land, have enabled new residents to be absorbed rapidly within an increasingly large urban area. These new residents maintain much stronger links with their native villages than with their new urban environment. The holding of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens is an opportunity to improve the city's transport infranstructures of which the main elements are the new airport, metro and urban motorways.