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Τίτλος:	Journey to Greece: urban development, archaeology, and the tourist gaze in the 1930s
Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Αθανάσιου, Αιμιλία[EN] Athanassiou, Emilia [EL] Δήμα, Βασιλική[EN] Dima, Vasiliki [EL] Καραλή, Κωνσταντινιά[EN] Karali, Konstantinia [EL] Τουρνικιώτης, Παναγιώτης[EN] Tournikiotis, Panayotis
Ημερομηνία:	30/08/2018
Περίληψη:	The transition from the Grand Tour tradition to the phenomenon of mass tourism can be detected in Greece at the dawn of the 1930s. This paper considers travelling and the shaping of Greek tourism as tools for investigating the emergence of modern mobility and modern networks, both structural components of the modern city and urbanism. The modern socio-economic condition of the Greek state gave rise to a vast development of urban infrastructure in Athens and its harbour Piraeus as well as of welfare facilities. An emerging Athenian modernism is evident in a series of town-planning programs as the garden-city suburbs and refugee settlements addressed, respectively, the pressure for housing and the rehabilitation of thousands of refugees, settled in the city after the Asia Minor Catastrophe. At the same time, the expansion of the Greek capital had to be planned in advance, organized and designed, in order to meet the modern needs of urban development, together with its ancient heritage and tradition. In this context, the present paper will explore the role of modern architecture in the development of the newly formed touristic aspect of the Greek urban, archaeological, as well as natural, environment. Foreign archaeological schools in Athens, international conferences, travel agencies, art magazines, travel publications and cultural cruises are intertwined networks that urged modern intellectuals to make the journey to Greece. At the same time, the impressive building boom motivated foreign engineers, architects, urban planners and construction companies to visit Greece. Additionally, the political situation in Europe, with the rise of totalitarian regimes, offered to several intellectuals of the time a way-out through working in Greece. Pointing examples by both professional and recreational travellers, the paper will trace the way foreign architects, planners and engineers looked at the urban transformation of Athens. This other gaze is an opportunity to unveil the dynamic situation of the yet to become touristic gaze. The itineraries of foreign architects and other modernists in the 1930s are explored here as instances of the multiple and interconnected mobility networks of the period. This research attempts to showcase the traveller’s view of the interwar urban development of Athens, as prefiguring the tourism frenzy of Mediterranean vacations that would emerge after WWII.
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
Τόπος δημοσίευσης:	Rome, Italy
Σελίδες:	10
Θεματική κατηγορία:	[EL] Αρχιτεκτονική μηχανική[EN] Architecture engineering
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:	Ιστορια και Θεωρία της Αρχιτεκτονικής; Modern Athens; tourism; Antiquity; Urban development; interwar Greece
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	© by the author(s)
Όνομα εκδήλωσης:	EAUH 2018 14th International Conference on Urban History
Τοποθεσία εκδήλωσης:	Rome, Italy
Ημ/νία έναρξης εκδήλωσης:	29/08/2018
Ημ/νία λήξης εκδήλωσης:	01/09/2018
Σημειώσεις:	Session M52 Papers :https://eauh2018.ccmgs.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EAUH2018-Conference-booklet.pdf The present paper is part of the research program Voyage to Greece: Mobility and modern architecture in the interwar period, E. Athanassiou, V. Dima, K. Karali, scientific supervisor: P. Tournikiotis, Prof. NTUA. The research is co-financed by the Greek State and the European Union
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