Urban plan targets Athens’ densification

A caller municipality program for Athens warns that the city, densely built and lacking nationalist and greenish spaces, cannot sustain further construction.

The study proposes lowering gathering coefficients and expanding minimum crippled sizes to gradually trim unit connected the municipality fabric.

Prepared by a consortium of three firms under Konstantinos Lalenis, prof of Urban Planning astatine the University of Thessaly, the program was submitted to the Environment Ministry and integrates 13 overlapping argumentation frameworks, including clime adaptation, mobility, economical growth, tourism, and flood management.

Rather than applying broad reductions, the program calls for targeted adjustments to smooth irregular coefficients, support small plots, and minimize densification. It designates constricted improvement zones under state incentives and stricter rules to sphere residential areas facing tourist pressure, such arsenic Koukaki and Makrygianni.

Unbuilt plots could beryllium converted to parking, while “tourism strength control” zones would bounds unsustainable tourism. Special plans absorption connected districts similar Elaionas, promoting κοινωνικά housing, alongside relocating 9 ministries extracurricular the metropolis center.