Abstract
Παραλίας Θεσσαλονίκης, αναλύοντας την αλληλεπίδραση μεταξύ τωναστικών πολιτικών και πρακτικών του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης καιομάδων πολιτών. Ο στόχος μας είναι να αναδείξουμε το πολύπλοκοδίκτυο συναινέσεων και συγκρούσεων που αναδύεται στουςδημόσιους χώρους της πόλης, υποστηρίζοντας τη σημασία τωνπρακτικών αμφισβήτησης, καθώς αυτές αποτελούν τη δημοκρατικήχωρική έκφραση των πραγματικών αναγκών και επιθυμιών τωνκατοίκων των πόλεων.AbstractUnited Nation’s Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda have marked a turn of global urban policies from urban sustainability to urban resilience. From then onwards, citizen participation attains an increased importance in the production of public spaces. In 2016, the Municipality of Thessaloniki announced its participation in the network of“100 Resilient Cities”, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation. Building on this, the Municipality has produced the “Strategy for Urban Resilience”, which foregrounds the concept of “co-creation” and participation of public spaces. In light of this, we explore the re-ordering of Thessaloniki’s New Waterfront, through the interplay among urban policies and practices of the Municipality and citizen-led initiatives of everyday praxis. Our aim is to unearth the complex network of consensus and contestation, emerging in and through the public spaces of the New Waterfront, paying particular attention to the importance of practices of dissensus. Conceptualizing these practices as the spatialization of democratic urban politics, we provide an empirically grounded analysis of how and to what extent they contribute towards more democratic urban transformation.
| Translated title of the contribution | Urban resilience and co-creation of public spaces: Thessaloniki's New Waterfront as a terrain of struggle |
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| Original language | Greek |
| Pages (from-to) | 57-69 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Γεωγραφίες |
| Volume | 32 |
| Publication status | Published - 19 Jan 2018 |