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Urban Stories
An illustrated blog on cities, heritage, and public life
Athens
Memory, modernity & urban identity
What Tourism Forgets to Measure
This Easter I spent a few days in Athens and decided to see the city through a visitor's eyes.
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The Wrong Question on Filopappou Hill
The so-called "refreshment pavilion" stays ruined and abandoned for years. Recently, it came back into the public conversation around its possible future use.
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What is actually "architectural mediation"?
In the second year of my studies, around 2000, I visited for the first time the house of Aris Konstantinidis in Anavyssos, a coastal suburb outside Athens.
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Artificiel: an Everyday Material Symbol
The apartment block, known as polykatoikia, is something deeply Athenian and familiar to most of us.
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Reflections on the 'Urban Details' initiative
2014, in the middle of the economic crisis, I organised the artistic initiative "Urban Details" for Patission Street: an exhibition and a series of parallel events inside an old Ukrainian restaurant on Mithimnis Street, in the Kypseli neighborhood of Athens
Read moreBerlin
Division, reunion & urban transformation
Alexanderplatz in the Mornings
Alexanderplatz, 7:30 a.m. One of the busiest areas in Berlin, with its large square and iconic landmarks.
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Finding Berlin's History in the Metro Stations
What do we do in those few minutes while waiting for the metro on the platform or heading there?
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The Bleibtreu Cafe in a Greek Song
Every winter, when snow covers Berlin for a few weeks—like these days—a particular song always comes to mind: "Bleibtreu Café" by Haris and Panos Katsimichas, two of the most important figures in Greek music.
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The Berlin Wall memory in the contemporary city
Living in Berlin, it is almost impossible not to come across through the traces of the Wall’s memory.
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Living in Yellow: Autumn in Berlin
In the interwar years, the first visionary modern urban planners and theorists began to design and write about the cities of the future.
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How was the Cold War reflected in architecture?
Nowhere else in the world do two opposing visions of the Cold War coexist so clearly as in Berlin.
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15 Years in Berlin: Architecture and Integration
This September marks fifteen years since I moved to Berlin. Among the city’s residents there is a popular saying:
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Cities & More
Public space, democracy & urban life
On Lisbon. Part Three.
The physical wear on Lisbon's buildings doesn't read as a renovation waiting to happen.
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On Lisbon. Part Two.
What stood out more than anything else were the tiled façades. They were so distinct, so intense,
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On Lisbon. Part One.
How does your view of a city change when you go from one you know deeply to one you're only visiting for a few days?
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