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Europe's largest
redevelopment project
is rising in Athens. In
addition to the park,
Lamda Development's
plans include a casino,
a marina, and up to
10,000 residential
units.
Athenians seeking out nature have always
had to go out of town to visit relatives or
friends in the country or to a national park,
according to Grove, who offers several reasons
he thinks Athenians will take to the
concept.
For decades, the old airport was the way
that most of the Greek diaspora got to or
from Greece, and many people still have an
emotional attachment to the old gateway.
" Every single Greek or Greek American I've
spoken to . . . [has] strong memories of the
site and are all very excited to know that it's
going to be a public park, " Grove says.
All those lives spent abroad have
acquainted many people with big parks.
" I think for the diaspora that's lived abroad
that has an experience with a Central Park
or a Hyde Park or something like that, they
know the value of a park like that to the
image of the city, " he says.
In the design, too, Grove says the planners
have tried to include plants that people
might have some personal association with,
such as rosemary or another plant " that
maybe their grandmother would have had
outside her door. "
Finally, Athenians will like the park because
a lot of their grandmothers do not live out in
the country anymore. The city's population
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now tops 3.8 million-about 40 percent of
the country's population-and fewer people
leave for the country during the summer,
Grove says, creating an even greater need
for green space.
In tree coverage, Athens ranks near the
bottom in Europe, with about 11 percent of
the land shaded, compared with 24 percent
in Rome and 39 percent in Madrid, according
to European Environment Agency statistics.
As for green space generally, Athens does
not score well either: it has about 26.9 square
feet (2.5 sq m) of green space per person,
making it one of the least-green major cities
in the world. (By comparison, Rome has
about 300 square feet [28 sq m] of green
space per person and London has 753.5
square feet [70 sq m], according to a 2019
study in the Journal of Forestry Science.)
However, the park will be a major improvement.
After it opens-the first phase is slated
for completion in 2026, with the second
phase expected to be completed in 2030-
Athenians will have 44 percent more green
space per capita than they did previously.
Going with the Flow
A low-maintenance park has many advantages,
but not in the design phase. The
Ellinikon's design alone has involved a team
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