Why is Athens more like Brasilia than Rome?
How did Athenians begin to love their town?
What was the ingenious legal innovation called antiparochi that solved the housing needs of Greece’s capital ?
All the answers and many more facts about Athens that you can not imagine in the article of Stathis Kalivas, Gladstone Professor of Government and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford. He is the author of, among others, “Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford University Press, 2015)