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• ATHENS• ANCIENT TIMES AND MODERN ATHENS
Ancient times (1100 -323 BC)Classical times ( 5th century BC)-The Golden Age of Pericles
Classical Times in Greece, from 500 BC until the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, are justly considered as one of the highest expressions of the Greek civilization . The ideas and concepts, the art and systems of governing which human mind created during this epoch are of a diachronic value .
Athens has been a city for 3.500 years but its greatest glory was during the classical period of ancient Greece from which so many buildings and artifacts still survive. Athens became the cradle of democracy .
Pericles was an aristocrat that defended the democratic values. He dominated in the political life of Athens for approximately 30 years.
He adopted different political reforms that allowed to the people to actively participate into politics.
He restored the temples destroyed by the barbarians and ordered the construction of magnificent monuments, such as the Acropolis , thus introducing an epoch that is called "The Golden Age of Pericles “
Pericles
Currency with the Goddess Athenas’ head
Nowadays the inhabited area is 30.000 hectares with 3.500.000 people.
The ratio of the urban and suburban green space in the basin of Athens is 2,55 square metres per resident , while the European Organization of the Environment considers the proportion of 10 square meters per individual hardly acceptable.
On 18th September, 1834 Athens was recognized as the capital of Greece.
In those days Athens was 300 hectares and counted 10.000 – 12.000 people .
Photo of Athens at the beginning of the 19th century
Small houses, land ,dirt road.
This Athens has vanished
Athens from the air
Small houses with red tiles
Modern Greece1830: The independence of Greece was signed.
1834: Athens capital of Greece.
1837 : University built
1862 : Athens was lit up with gas.
1889 : “electricity “ came to Athens
1896 : Olympic games. The first car was launched
1905 : Asphalt covering of the streets. The first telephone
1907 :The first cinema. The population of Athens was 165.000.1908: Operation of the first organized telephone center with 800 subscribers. There were 12 primary schools and 5 high schools.1920: 30.000 people. About 80 cars in Athens.1923: Launch of the first “Citroen” taxis. Minor Asia Destruction: 300.000 refugees from Minor Asia moved to Athens. Serious problems of cleanliness and water shortage surfaced.
1925: The construction of the dam in lake Marathon started that year in
order to solve the water supply problem of the capital
1940-1944: German possession, National Resistance. 1997: Athens is in charge of the Olympic Games 2004.2001: The new airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” is built.2004: The Olympic Games 13-29 August.
Urban history of Athens
The basic points of the urban development
100 m..The first event during the Olympic Games of 1896
Athens 1840
Environmental Problems: Air pollution – smog Excessive use of cars Lack of open spaces Vast number of cement constructions and the bad town planning choke the City. High temperatures in summer
Efforts made in recent years: Car pools round the historical center of the city since 1995 Reformation of some public places, pedestrian zones Underground parking lots Improvement of the means of transportation - the metro since 2000 New motorways (Attiki odos) Tree plantations
Olympic stadium
Attiki Odos
Airport of Athens
smog
Metro map
The ratio of the urban and suburban green space in the basin of Athens is 2,55 square metres per resident , while the European Organization of the Environment considers the proportion of 10 square meters per individual hardly acceptable.
Diachronic development of population in the basin of
Athens
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500000
1000000
1500000
2000000
2500000
3000000
3500000
4000000
1834 1836 1862 1879 1881 1897 1907 1920 1922 1971 1981 1991 1998
Years
Polulation
Years 1834 1836 1862 1879 1881 1897 1907 1920 1922 1971 1981 1991 1998 2008
Population
10.000
14.000
40.000
63.000
68.000
130.000
165.000
300.000
600.000
2.800.000
3.370.000
3.500.000
3.450.000
3,074.160