Popular urban settlements in Athens : a comparative study of low income housing

• Main Author: Kitsiou, Triada
• Other Authors: Horacio Caminos.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
• Subjects: Architecture.; Housing Greece Athens; Urbanization Greece Athens; Squatter settlements Greece Athens
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75486

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981. === MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. === Includes bibliographical references. === This study is concerned with aspects of housing and urban development related to the lower income groups in the context of urbanization in Athens, Greece. It identifies and evaluates typical low income housing settlements presently existing in Athens and develops a land utilization model along with a set of related planning guidelines to provide for future planned low income urban developments. The approach has been to determine the requirements of a low income housing program by identifying and evaluating the inadequacies and potentials of related existing conditions. === by Triada Kitsiou. === M.S.