CHAPTER TWO: URBAN PLANNING AND REVOLT
the universities were organically integrated into the urban fabric, they became inextricable entities in the city’s everyday life. The liveliness of the universities and the political procedures that take place there are increased by the fact that the composition of the student community has spread across social classes. Yet due to a lack of space, and following the experience of the subversive student movements of the 1960s and the 1970s, university campuses built during the dictatorship or the post-dictatorial years would purposefully be built away from the urban core. Nevertheless, old university buildings in Athens and other cities are still prime places in which social movements organise. These buildings offer resources for meetings, events, concerts, and sites from which to organise the logistics of the movement.
universities spirals indicate areas with universities
University faculties in the urban area of Athens. TERRITORIAL EXPANSION OF A REVOLT “A BURNING CITY IS A BLOSSOMING FLOWER”
Athens may have been the European metropolis with the most barricades in the first decade of the new millennium. December 2008 was not the first time that streets and public buildings were occupied,
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