Recent Developments in Planning Legislation in Greece
Dimitris Melissas
Urban and spatial planning coincide during the 19th century and aim to ensure the minimum living and housing needs of citizens. State policy is limited to an effort to deal with problems that occur during the reconstruction of buildings, namely through the release of legislative acts concerning safety, hygiene, aesthetics of buildings and cities. Therefore, spatial planning is lacking legislative intervention. In practice, the reconstruction of cities is uncontrolled, especially in the city of Athens, where according to theory the Service of Public Works, had to operate under the pressure of micro-politics for several decades. Gradually, since 1880, the increase of urbanization and the formation in an embryonic still stage of industrial production, the social pressure towards a decrease of the challenges of complex urban properties and of the problems that derived from expropriation, and, in particular, the need for a clear delineation between public and private property, were the operative events for an organised State intervention through the adoption of legal acts for spatial management,
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