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Athens from 1920 to 1940 - A true and just account of how History was enveloped by a modern City and the Place became an Event (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,069
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Athens from 1920 to 1940 - A true and just account of how History was enveloped by a modern City and the Place became an Event...

Athens from 1920 to 1940 - A true and just account of how History was enveloped by a modern City and the Place became an Event (Paperback)

Dimitris N. Karidis

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During the short interwar period of the early 20th century, Athens entered into a process of meteoric urban transformation which gave her a unique place among European capital cities of the time. The implementation of a settlement programme for hundreds of thousands of refugees, following the 1922 Smyrna catastrophe, effected social and economic metamorphoses, which, in their early steps, were not devoid of patterns of social and spatial segregation. During the 1930s, notwithstanding manifold adversities, the capital city encountered modernity, but she did so on her own terms. On the ideological level, the place acquired a world-wide reputation for two reasons. First, by the ambitious venture of unearthing antiquities in the ancient agora and revealing the glory of ancient Greece, even if a whole neighbourhood standing on the spot, which for centuries had teemed with social exchange and commercial transactions, had to be erased for that purpose. Second, by imprinting her name on the 'Charter of Athens', the document concluding the results of the 4th Congress of Modern Architecture which she hosted, intrinsically linking her with the avant-garde architectural theory and practice of the time. Furthermore, state/governmental involvement in the production of the built environment, occasionally supporting the private sector and landowners in particular in their speculative intentions, provided Athens with the infrastructure she demanded for exercising her role as the capital city of Greece. The Marathon Dam, the underground railway, the steam-powered electric plants, and many other projects, implied advances through which the average man and woman in the street could rejoice that modernization had taken deep roots within Athenian daily life. Yet, it seems Athens walked alongside modernism not within it. Very much like Narcissus, the handsome young man from Boeotia, it might be that Athens looked at her beautiful face mirrored as if in the still water of a lake; overwhelmed by a strong feeling of exaltation and delight, she stood there until she died.

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Imprint: Archaeopress Archaeology
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2016
Authors: Dimitris N. Karidis (Professor Emeritus)
Dimensions: 290 x 205 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - A4
Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 978-1-78491-311-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Industrial archaeology
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
Books > History > European history > General
LSN: 1-78491-311-1
Barcode: 9781784913113

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