ATHENS

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ATHENS

• ANCIENT TIMES AND MODERN ATHENS

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• 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
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• Modern Greece
• 1830 The independence of Greece was signed.

• 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
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Urban history of Athens The basic points of the
urban development
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.
Athens 1840
100 m..The first event during the Olympic Games
of 1896
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• 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

smog
Metro map
Airport of Athens
Olympic stadium
Attiki Odos
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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.
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
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