Dead-end Athens

Iro Karountzou

I perceive flow as a continuous action, phenomenon, situation. Thinking through it, isn’t the repetition of the disturbance of a flow, a flow itself?

Roads are the main traffic flow of a city, whether it concerns pedestrians or vehicles. But still in this well-oiled system we can observe breaks of the flow. Studying this, I became interested in the radical break points of the roads, the dead ends. Around Athens, we find different formations of these dead ends. Aim of the study is to enlist  the different cases of dead ends, and describe their characteristics, and the reasons they are formed in the way they are, beginning from Attica and zooming in, in different parts of Athens such as Eleonas, the historic center, and more.