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A special publication with contributions by 26 writers that explores the multifaceted history of the Athenian apartment blocks (polykatoik\u00edas) and their impact on the city\u2019s urban fabric and life. Through narrations, recollections, personal experiences, and photographs, the new edition of Onassis Publications captures the stories of people and buildings while mapping the changes taking place in Athenian society.<\/p>\n Seeing\u00a0Athens\u00a0from above, one revels in its most characteristic view: a \u2018sea\u2019 of apartment buildings. The \u2018polykatoikia,\u2019 a key component of\u00a0Athens’ contemporary history and current structure, emerged from post-war urbanization as a reconstruction model, providing wider social strata with the opportunity to rebuild the city, building by building. These processes have long become a subject of public discussion, as well-established myths around those \u201cwho destroyed\u00a0Athens\u201d have allowed a perceived divide between the agents of \u2018antiparochi\u2019 and \u2018polykatoikia\u2019 and the city\u2019s present-day residents.<\/p>\n As an effort to entwine these two worlds, the book, on the one hand, profiles stories from within\u2014narratives that trace what took and still takes place in the interior of the Athenian polykatoikia\u2014and, on the other hand, tracks grassroots tales of the city, namely narrations around the people who built, passed through, inhabited, and still inhabit the city.<\/p>\n The interpolating stories and theoretical texts are not necessarily read in the book\u2019s intended order but rather in a \u2018free-floating\u2019 manner on the reader\u2019s part. Recounts, memories, personal experiences, photographs, diagrams, building codes, contracts, and operating regulations all together trace the histories of people and buildings, while at the same time charting composite processes that transpire across the scale of the neighborhood and the Athenian society at large.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a Greek edition. A special publication with contributions by 26 writers that explores the multifaceted history of the Athenian apartment blocks (polykatoik\u00edas) and their impact on the city\u2019s urban fabric and life. Through narrations, recollections, personal experiences, and photographs, the new edition of Onassis Publications captures the stories of people and buildings while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":68974,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[707],"product_tag":[],"product_group":[655],"product_general_cat":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68975","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"pa_material-paper","8":"product_group--en","10":"first","11":"outofstock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n