Navarinou Park – part playground, part open-air cinema, part vegetable garden and verdant oasis – was never meant to be. Something is stirring in the Greek capital – and in more ways than one Navarinou Park has come to represent it. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Navarinou Park hosts a ‘community kitchen event’ in 2011, organised to help out those hit hardest by the financial crisis. Increasingly, local associations, resident committees and solidarity groups are forging ties, exchanging know-how, giving shape to new concepts of co-existence, and in so doing, reshaping public space. Since the 2004 Athens Olympics devastated the public purse, the debate over public space has increasingly been dominated by private donors jostling for iconic projects.

Source: The Guardian September 21, 2016 11:37 UTC