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 ...

Trees in cities have an important positive effect on people’s lives. One such positive effect is the amelioration of microclimate. The aim of this research is to assess the correlation between parameters that affect the ...

This paper investigates how vegetation, mainly through evapotranspiration, affects the improvement of microclimatic conditions in urban areas and, more specifically, it examines the case for the city of Chania in Crete. ...

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 large construction projects cause inevitable negative impact on the natural landscape of the exposed areas. Among these is the creation of disturbed surfaces with unsuitable soil material and gradients that imply ...

Agriculture in cities has always existed although it is typically considered a rural activity. In fact, many cities have evolved from agrarian roots, settling on the agricultural lands that are most productive. However, urban ...

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 ...

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 ...

Στην εργασία αυτή παρουσιάζονται τα αποτελέσματα δειγματοληπτικής έρευνας (στρωματοποιημένη δειγματοληψία με ερωτηματολόγια) που πραγματοποιήθηκε τον Μάρτιο του 2003, σχετικά με τις θέσεις των εργαζομένων (Ιατροί, Νοσηλευτές, ...

Στόχος της εργασίας αυτής είναι η διερεύνηση και η αντιμετώπιση του προβλήματος του κυκλοφοριακού θορύβου στους οικισμούς, που βρίσκονται πλησίον υπεραστικών οδών. Για την πραγματοποίηση του σκοπού της εργασίας εξετάζεται ...

Το κείμενο που ακολουθεί εντάσσεται στο γενικότερο πλαίσιο στο οποίο αναφέρεται το περιεχόμενο ορισμένων μαθημάτων της Σχολής που έχουν ως κύριο στόχο την διαμόρφωση του ευρύτερου θεωρητικού και γνωσιολογικού υποβάθρου των ...

Houses of the future could be partially built with bacteria. It sounds like science fiction but researchers involved in an EU-backed project in Madrid are working towards making this a concrete reality.

This article comments on the urban planning theory-practice gap, focusing on the relationship between the planning theory and the use of urban indicators. The reason for the selection of this case study is twofold. On the ...

The aim of the article is to review the official Greek target indicators, i.e. those standards that are included in the current planning legislation ( Official Government Gazette 285/D/5.3, 2004), and are used for the ...

It is generally recognised that indicator-based research forms a substantial part both of the everyday practice and of the current theoretical pursuits in an extensive set of different scientific fields that relate to the ...

The General Valuation has a very significant role to play in Cyprus’ economic environment because it forms the basis by which all property taxes are levied. It is considered as a very important land management tool, as ...

As stated on Dimopoulos et al (2014) property tax in Greece is levied since 1985 not on Market Values but on the “objective value” of the properties as it is defined by the Ministry of Economics. It forms a non-flexible ...

This paper aims to examine how CAMA, GIS and Remote Sensing are integrated to assist property taxation. Real property tax apart from its fiscal dimension is directly linked to geographic location. The value of the land ...

The article aims at exploring the literature on town centre delimitation methods over the last sixty years. Specifically, the first section explores the content of the term town centre, while the second one proposes an ...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways that the top-down and the bottom-up approaches to planning can be combined in the practice of planning standards. In the first part, the paper examines the utilization of ...