Ελληνικό Δίκτυο ΦΙΛΟΙ της ΦΥΣΗΣ
churches, more recent public buildings,
refugee settlements, parks, botanical
gardens and industrial buildings reveal
the history of the city.
poet Angelos Sikelianos in Faneromeni,
faintly visible from the mainland,
creates new sightseeing paths and new
connections.
It was around those two main axes that
the area was inhabited in contemporary
times,
with
two
demographic
explosions that transformed it, first
in the beginning of the 20 th century
with the Asia Minor humanitarian
catastrophe and the settlement of
refugees mainly in Aigaleo, and later
on with the internal migration that
followed WW2, with refugees largely
from the Peloponnese, Crete and
Cyclades. The area was then deemed
“empty agricultural space” and housed
the factories and industries of Athens
while construction of the infrastructure
ensued to house the new work force.
The new working - class housing
projects, the industrial buildings,
the shipyards at Skaramangas and
Eleusis, the oil refineries in Eleusis and
Aspropyrgos and other industries of
high environmental impact and risk
(SEVESO category), alter the landscape
and the shoreline of Thriasion Pedion
(the plain around Eleusis). They turn
it into a multiple-narrative landscape
where the existing wetlands and the
industrial seafront of the gulfs of Eleusis
and Nea Peramos of Megara visually
unite with the islets across and the
coast of Salamis. There, the house of
Chariklia Chari
Architect,
PhD appl. At NTUA, MICROGEOGRAPHIES
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