Abstract
Urban planning in Greece was an unclear and multifaceted procedure, failing to produce clear results. Such an example is related to various traffic problems recorded in several Greek cities. Indeed, urban planning, which was mainly applied through the implementation of General Development Plans (G.D.Ps.), has failed to examine the aspects of transportation. To face this problem, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (S.U.M.Ps.) are on the forefront of urban planning process and many Greek cities tend to implement such plans, in the near future. Meanwhile, urban planning legislative framework has been modified and G.D.Ps. have been replaced by another similar type of tool: Local Spatial Plans (L.S.Ps.). This change reveals an opportunity, as a holistic-comprehensive planning approach is emerged. In that context, measures and solutions, whose viability will not be questioned, in practical terms, over a few years, can be proposed in order for L.S.Ps. and S.U.M.Ps. to function effectively. This is the main topic of this paper that tries to approach the potential problems that may arise at legal and practical level from the coexistence of S.U.M.Ps with L.S.Ps which are new planning tools of urban design. This knowledge is derived by analyzing the way in which S.U.M.Ps. have already been implemented in Greece and the problems emerged by the previous institutionalized plans. Concerning the institutional provision for S.U.M.Ps and L.S.Ps, we attempt to identify some cases where problems may arise during the planning procedure, in order to give additional directions to the studiers of both plans, during the study process.
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Bakogiannis, E., Eleftheriou, V., Kyriakidis, C., Chatziioannou, I. (2021). The Role of Transport in Urban Planning in Greece: How to Integrate Sustainable Mobility Planning in Local Spatial Planning?. In: Nathanail, E.G., Adamos, G., Karakikes, I. (eds) Advances in Mobility-as-a-Service Systems. CSUM 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61075-3_15
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