Today public space is often degraded and depreciated so as to its function as well as to its image, as a consequence of financial and functional transformation and social change in the city. This paper highlights the challenges of implementing interventions in the public space in order to recover hidden or lost functional and aesthetic qualities.
Several cases of interventions for the public space are mentioned, such as the old city of Nafplion, Plaka in Athens, Amphicleia and Kasteli at Poros. The study proposals included legislative measures, circulation regulations, the improvement of technical infrastructure, architectural interventions to restore the preserved old paving and the micro-landscape elements, new paving which is compatible to the old one, the preservation and enrichment of green spaces, the upgrade of the image of the settlement’s traditional and more modern buildings, the redesign of a network of routes bearing cultural interest, with spaces and points for stopping, admiring, resting and recreation.
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