TITLE:
Rebuilding Greece, 1830-1920. Ambitions and Realities
AUTHORS:
Dora Monioudi-Gavala
KEYWORDS:
Urban Planning, Architecture, Greece, Athens, Nineteenth Century
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.8 No.5,
December
9,
2019
ABSTRACT: The built areas of cities saw intense activity in
the new Hellenic state established in 1830, after the war of Independence from Ottoman rule. State activity had highly
significant results, which changed the country’s constructed environment,
transforming ruined communities, or insignificant villages into urban centres. Although the state’s goals are known
through the bibliography to date, the reasons for its successes and failures
have been of minor concern. This study analyzes the factors that contributed to
the state’s success or failure in planning constructed space. It also endeavours to estimate the effects of the
changes in people’s lives that could be defined as cultural.