Planning industrial location in Greater Athens: The interaction between deindustrialization and anti-industrialism during the 1980s

Kourliouros, E

dc.contributor.author	Kourliouros, E	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:46:06Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:46:06Z
dc.date.issued	1997	en
dc.identifier.issn	09654313	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/24848
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dc.subject.other	industrial location	en
dc.subject.other	land use planning	en
dc.subject.other	manufacturing	en
dc.subject.other	Greece, Athens	en
dc.title	Planning industrial location in Greater Athens: The interaction between deindustrialization and anti-industrialism during the 1980s	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.publicationDate	1997	en
heal.abstract	This article aims at examining how and why industrial location planning intentions and attempts undertaken by a Socialist government during the 1980s in a southern European capitalist metropolis, Greater Athens, were not achieved in practice. It first examines recent trends in the unequal geography of manufacturing production in Athens and identifies the major problems of the Athenian industrial space. It then examines the basic urban-industrial planning attempts undertaken during the 1980s and the actual sociopolitical and cultural responses which drove to the abandonment of those attempts. The article argues that these responses were grounded in a widespread anti-industrial mentality, the political speculation of the environment issue and the fictitious dilemma 'environmental protection-versus-industrial development' in Athens. It then sets forth an explanation of anti-industrialism as the combined outcome of: (1) the general spatial-economic problems; (2) the role of speculative land and housing interests; (3) the lack of a comprehensive and deliberate industrial strategy for the development and effective location of manufacturing; and (4) the mainstream ideological propensities developed during the 1980s. On the basis of these analyses the article finally proposes a re-orientation of future research towards more socially and culturally informed approaches in the Greek context.	en
heal.journalName	European Planning Studies	en
dc.identifier.volume	5	en
dc.identifier.issue	4	en
dc.identifier.spage	435	en
dc.identifier.epage	460	en