Built quickly and on the cheap — mainly from the 1950s to the 1980s — these modernist apartment buildings (pronounced “Pol-i-kat-i-KEE-A”) line street after street in the…
- Feargus O’Sullivan
- Bloomberg
They may lack the elegance of Athens’ earlier neo-classical housing, but they have helped to create a city that is vibrant, socially integrated and (until recently) affordable, in which…
It’s probably fair to say, however, that the buildings have managed all this more or…
When the polikatoikias (the…