Colonie Urbaine

Historical, political or economic context in which the plan/project is proposed

Urban Regeneration: Unification of 4 Athenian city blocks. Stamos Papadakis advocated apartment buildings on large city blocks, and offered a designed example of a colonie urbaine, a U-shaped scheme following the CIAM formulas. Maintaining that typical Athenian city blocks of sixty by forty meters did not allow for rational urban planning, he proposed the unification of four of them and the roads in between into a large, single block. The U-shape left one side of the new mega-block open for ventilation of the central space and the apartments

Bibliography

Papadakis, S. “The Nea Alexandreia Colony and the Territorial Economy of Athens.” Technical Chronicles, no. 11 (april 1933): 361–364. (Reproduced and translated in Rodi, A., G. Panetsos, and A. Manis (Eds.), “Athens: Formal/Spontanteous.” ΔΟΜĒΣ, no. 141 (2017): 40-46.