During the Olympic Games preparation of 2004 in Athens many project applied to the urban and to the rural area of Attica County where Athens is the capital. The purpose of this study is to point out the main design concept ...

Environmental planning must involve, among other things, the regulation and control of land use. In the case of forest environments, forest use and activities such as forest recreation and so on should contain environmental ...

This paper demonstrate the current situation of the urban park (Pedio Areos) in the centre of Athens and deals with its management issues. Two major problems are the daily maintenance and safety. As it is known, parks ...

During the preparation of Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, many changes have been applied in Old Landscape e.g. parks, city squares, pedestrian roads.In addition New Landscapes have been contracted, especially around the main ...

Today landscape digital technologies have become prerequisite for all landscape educational programs, altering the ways landscape architecture design schemes look, and by extension influencing the tra¬ditional methods that ...

This paper examined users’ preferences for landscape design of grounds and spaces surrounding hospitals, in order to assess how they perceived the landscape facilities so as to make future open spaces of hospitals suitable ...

The present paper deals with the usefulness of outdoor spaces of nursing institutions which we name "therapeutic" gardens. A therapeutic garden offers a locality where the patients and their healers might achieve the ...

Greece has a long history of road constructions. The mountain roads represent some of the most dramatic in Europe. However most of these roads have been built with little attempt to reduce environmental impacts, reflecting ...

Parking lots typically are designed to accommodate as many automobiles as possible. The common product is an expanse of asphalt lacking vegetation that negatively affects the urban microclimate. The usual design of parking ...

The use for scheduling irrigations and for determining water allotments for landscapes is being adopted by water purveyors, agencies, landscape architects, and maintenance personnel. The needs of the dry and hot areas of ...

This paper examines the microclimatic conditions and the feeling of thermal comfort in two different open spaces in the town of Drama, through constant record of the environmental parameters of temperature and relative ...

This paper aims to share experiences in understanding, exploring and creating landscape space in studio projects. Catherine Dee’s book, “Fabric and Form in Landscape Architecture: A Visual Introduction”, has, over the ...

The relationship between tourism and sites of cultural and natural significance exists since the time of Greek Antiquity and strongly encourages landscape restoration of urban sites. This paper provides an up-to-date ...

Aim of this paper is the presentation of proposal on open space replanning of Democritus University, which is found outside the city of Komotini, in Greece, through the participative activation process of students of the ...

As to the Urban Planning level, the distribution of Public Recreation Areas at the area of a Prefecture is examined(Case of Attiki Prefecture). This existing Public Recreation Areas are specified, while their range as to ...

The protection and enhancement of archaeological sites directly connected to the important infrastructure works. The example of ERGOSE railway construction works. Since the nature of the major infrastructure projects have ...

Urban public space is not a phenomenon of the twenty first century. It originated with the public parks of the mid-nineteenth century which were a considerable part of the urban fabric (Chadwick, 1966). Urban parks and ...

The suggested ecological concept of urban green space is a series of gardens by the water edge connected through a network of footpaths with large blocks of woodland, creating therefore a natural framework at the city's ...

Palms is one of the most important plant families, with great contribution to human aesthetic and use. Planted in groups, combined with other plants, or separately, their elegant form is impressive and imposes to the ...

This paper presents a design proposal for the fortress and the surrounding area of the city of Thessaloniki and will be a part of a general planning and management schedule based on environmental aspects. In this way, the ...