Social and spatial atlas of Refugee Pireaus

Social and spatial atlas of Refugee Pireaus

“Refugee neighborhoods of #Piraeus and historical memory: From emergence to prominence” is an interdisciplinary research project by the National Hellenic Research Foundation and National Technical University of Athens, which aimed at studying the entirety of refugee settlements established in the wider area of Piraeus after 1922. The purpose of this report is to briefly present the findings both on the social and the urban planning level of the research, which was completed a few months ago.

The urban refugee settlement in the wider area of Piraeus was a gradual process that had not been thoroughly studied until now. The research project attempted to examine the settlement, utilizing historical evidence, unprocessed archives, contemporaneous newspapers, as well as oral testimonies. At the same time, a large number of topographical diagrams and map extracts was collected from various services and involved entities. After their digitization and homogenization, these resources were placed in a cohesive framework, thus providing the possibilty for a comprehensive overview and understanding of the urban geography of the settlement.

These resources provided the opportunity to formulate a new historical narrative of the urban refugee settlement in Piraeus, as well as to discover and highlight specific points of interest, both from a historical and an urban planning perspective. The collected materials will be further processed and, along with a deeper exploration of the process of residential development, will constitute the foundation for the creation of the refugee atlas of the wider area of Piraeus.

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