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In our time, theFokionos Negri Street preservationCartography ofLinear park urban heritage is ‘a condition sine qua non of the cities’ development’. It is an imperative action that ‘can better be framed within the larger goals of overall sustainable development through a landscape approach’ (UNESCO, Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, 2011). Such an approach consists of identifying and managing historic buildings or areas within their broader urban, natural and cultural contexts, to better comprehend the layering of cultural values, social practices and collective representations, through which the city ‘tells its own story’. Our ongoing PhD research is about the interwar urban landscape of Fokionos Negri StreetFokionos Negri Street, a green space that was created in the interwar years over a stream and along which leisure, commerce, services and housing coexist, forming the heart of KypseliKypseli, one of the oldest and most densely populated neighbourhoods of the capital of Greece. Unlike most neighbourhoods in the historic centre, Fokionos Negri retains several of the high-rise apartment buildings of Athenian modernism and, after being pedestrianized in the 1980s, has been transformed into one of the rare linear parksLinear park in Athens, which remains particularly attractive for the surrounding residential area. We are studying its transformations through archival research, field research and observations, personal interviews, various artistic and cultural ‘narratives’ and Press. This paper focuses on a diachronic psycho-geographical and mental ‘mapping’ of the linear parkLinear park through literature and art, a methodology that enables us to understand how society perceives the identityIdentity and physiognomy of the area in different periods. The aim is to contribute to the documentation, evaluation and highlighting of the special historical and cultural values carried by the insufficiently protected urban architecture and natural heritage of the early twentieth century in and around the central areas of Athens.

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‘Cartographies’ of the Landscape of the Interwar Linear Park of Fokionos Negri Street in Athens Through Literature and Art

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    2026年

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  • Georgia Eleftheraki,
  • Maria Markou,
  • Anna Maria Visilia

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In our time, theFokionos Negri Street preservationCartography ofLinear park urban heritage is ‘a condition sine qua non of the cities’ development’. It is an imperative action that ‘can better be framed within the larger goals of overall sustainable development through a landscape approach’ (UNESCO, Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, 2011). Such an approach consists of identifying and managing historic buildings or areas within their broader urban, natural and cultural contexts, to better comprehend the layering of cultural values, social practices and collective representations, through which the city ‘tells its own story’. Our ongoing PhD research is about the interwar urban landscape of Fokionos Negri StreetFokionos Negri Street, a green space that was created in the interwar years over a stream and along which leisure, commerce, services and housing coexist, forming the heart of KypseliKypseli, one of the oldest and most densely populated neighbourhoods of the capital of Greece. Unlike most neighbourhoods in the historic centre, Fokionos Negri retains several of the high-rise apartment buildings of Athenian modernism and, after being pedestrianized in the 1980s, has been transformed into one of the rare linear parksLinear park in Athens, which remains particularly attractive for the surrounding residential area. We are studying its transformations through archival research, field research and observations, personal interviews, various artistic and cultural ‘narratives’ and Press. This paper focuses on a diachronic psycho-geographical and mental ‘mapping’ of the linear parkLinear park through literature and art, a methodology that enables us to understand how society perceives the identityIdentity and physiognomy of the area in different periods. The aim is to contribute to the documentation, evaluation and highlighting of the special historical and cultural values carried by the insufficiently protected urban architecture and natural heritage of the early twentieth century in and around the central areas of Athens.