Title: Thessaloniki sees vigorous growth
123-t - May 2, 2006 08:45 AM (GMT)
Thessaloniki sees vigorous growth despite years of state focus on Athens 2004 Olympic facelift
New housing developments are sprawling in the suburbs while modern architecture is making its mark in public, not private, construction
Thessaloniki’s image has been undergoing a gradual transformation, with more projects in the works, especially along the city’s shoreline, stretching from the landmark White Tower (center). Renewal plans will retain the character of the city seafront and be in harmony with the surrounding landscape.
By Dimitris Rigopoulos - Kathimerini
Thessaloniki’s ring road at sunset, the best time in any city, has views of the Thermaic Gulf bathed in an orange-red glow.
To the right are the new housing complexes of Menemeni and Evosmos, not exactly ugly, perhaps because they are very new. Balconies are draped with minimalist displays of laundry hanging out to dry and stocked with satellite dishes and plastic cupboards. They are mostly the homes of Russian and Albanian immigrants and ethnic Greeks from the former Soviet bloc.
To the left, bare hills covered in spring grass are home to new structures sprouting up even along the summit ridges. It’s a familiar sight in Turkish cities such as Istanbul and Izmir.
Further on, in middle-class Kalamaria, the construction fever continues. New buildings are going up quickly in the new extension to the refugee settlements. The new neighborhoods aren’t as dense as Menemeni and are built better, but they are separated by unsurfaced roads. The sense of haste is obvious.
Thessaloniki got lost in the Olympics shuffle, when the spotlight was on the nation’s capital during the runup to the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, which profited from public works, new infrastructure and the designs of Santiago Calatrava.
Yet during those four years, Thessaloniki has been forging its own destiny. Although it has not seen the same amount of growth in infrastructure, development there has not remained static.
Quiet transformation
Instead, as the new century has dawned, Thessaloniki has undergone a quiet transformation.
The eastern entrance — the triangle formed by the airport, Kalamaria and the Pylaia district — is the site of a business and entertainment park with shopping malls, multiplex cinemas, hotels, major retail outlets such as Ikea, and large businesses.
A similar trend has prevailed in the western part of the city, which once reeked of the stench from tanneries. The suburbs are sprawling relentlessly but it is the center that still reflects the city’s ambitions. The recent dispute over the restoration of Aristotelous Square has been an indication of conflicts that have been simmering (and sometimes reaching boiling point) at a local level for some time. A much larger project — the construction of an underwater road tunnel in the Thermaic Gulf — has also caused ripples as it appears to challenge the relationship between the city and its seafront.
Thessaloniki in 2006 appears split between the need for infrastructure projects that will boost its urban image and important ideological concerns related to town-planning issues, both large and small. The decision to erect permanent structures in Aristotelous Square for the purpose of facilitating order clearly has a specific goal.
At the same time, the restoration of the Toumba lane by two young architects introduces another dimension. So it will be very interesting to see how this undeclared war develops.
Restoration of shoreline
One shouldn’t be deceived by the rhetoric of Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos and his gripe about the “Athenian state that does nothing.”
A lot is happening in Thessaloniki at the moment and not all of it is due to any initiative by Athens. The signs of development and the push to improve the city can be seen just by taking a stroll along the waterfront. The area around the White Tower is being excavated for refurbishment, delayed due to the discovery of ancient ruins on the site. The Central Archaeological Council ruled that these could be covered over, but then former deputy culture minister Petros Tatoulis seemed interested in reviewing the issue — to no purpose, as it turned out.
Nevertheless the Municipality of Thessaloniki, which is funding the project, took the initiative to amend the original design in order to include traces of the ancient foundations within the new ground cover.
The White Tower renovation is being done in accordance with an older design (by Katerina Tsigarida and associates) commissioned for the city’s term as Cultural Capital of Europe, something which was not done for Aristotelous Square.
The new coastline’s restoration will reach from the White Tower to the Concert Hall. The design (by Nikiforidis, Castro, Denisov and Cuomo) aims to retain the city’s familiar shoreline and the continuity of the landscape.
A central feature of the design are the 16 areas of greenery inside the coastal area forming a chain of “green rooms,” areas where an attempt is being made to preserve the familiar atmosphere of a private garden within public spaces — not large parks, but small spaces recalling gardens in village houses that used to be scattered along the eastern shore before the land reclamation of the 1970s.
As with every other town and city in Greece, it is not modern architecture that is changing Thessaloniki’s image.
The Cultural Capital organization resulted in no major new buildings, only the restoration of a few older ones (such as the Royal Theater, the Lazariston Monastery).
There are none of the aggressive architectural statements seen on some main streets in Athens (such as Kifissias Avenue), although this is not necessarily a bad thing. It might just reflect the waning of the economic dynamism that was a feature of the city in previous decades.
In contrast to what is happening in Athens, architectural activity is more evident in public buildings than in private office buildings — the new Town Hall, the Planetarium (designed by Panos Tzonos and Associates), the Technopolis near the airport (the world of Prodromos Nikiforidis and Bernard Cuomo), the Sports Museum at the Kaftantzogleio Stadium the Limani commercial center (by Rena Sakellaridou and Morfo Papanikolaou) at the city’s western entrance.
The complex transformation of the Toumba lane (by Tassos Biris) is also under way, as well as public spaces (a cultural center and multimedia center, Olympic-sized swimming pool) and outdoor sporting venues and parks.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...2/05/2006_69195
New housing developments are sprawling in the suburbs while modern architecture is making its mark in public, not private, construction
Thessaloniki’s image has been undergoing a gradual transformation, with more projects in the works, especially along the city’s shoreline, stretching from the landmark White Tower (center). Renewal plans will retain the character of the city seafront and be in harmony with the surrounding landscape.
By Dimitris Rigopoulos - Kathimerini
Thessaloniki’s ring road at sunset, the best time in any city, has views of the Thermaic Gulf bathed in an orange-red glow.
To the right are the new housing complexes of Menemeni and Evosmos, not exactly ugly, perhaps because they are very new. Balconies are draped with minimalist displays of laundry hanging out to dry and stocked with satellite dishes and plastic cupboards. They are mostly the homes of Russian and Albanian immigrants and ethnic Greeks from the former Soviet bloc.
To the left, bare hills covered in spring grass are home to new structures sprouting up even along the summit ridges. It’s a familiar sight in Turkish cities such as Istanbul and Izmir.
Further on, in middle-class Kalamaria, the construction fever continues. New buildings are going up quickly in the new extension to the refugee settlements. The new neighborhoods aren’t as dense as Menemeni and are built better, but they are separated by unsurfaced roads. The sense of haste is obvious.
Thessaloniki got lost in the Olympics shuffle, when the spotlight was on the nation’s capital during the runup to the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, which profited from public works, new infrastructure and the designs of Santiago Calatrava.
Yet during those four years, Thessaloniki has been forging its own destiny. Although it has not seen the same amount of growth in infrastructure, development there has not remained static.
Quiet transformation
Instead, as the new century has dawned, Thessaloniki has undergone a quiet transformation.
The eastern entrance — the triangle formed by the airport, Kalamaria and the Pylaia district — is the site of a business and entertainment park with shopping malls, multiplex cinemas, hotels, major retail outlets such as Ikea, and large businesses.
A similar trend has prevailed in the western part of the city, which once reeked of the stench from tanneries. The suburbs are sprawling relentlessly but it is the center that still reflects the city’s ambitions. The recent dispute over the restoration of Aristotelous Square has been an indication of conflicts that have been simmering (and sometimes reaching boiling point) at a local level for some time. A much larger project — the construction of an underwater road tunnel in the Thermaic Gulf — has also caused ripples as it appears to challenge the relationship between the city and its seafront.
Thessaloniki in 2006 appears split between the need for infrastructure projects that will boost its urban image and important ideological concerns related to town-planning issues, both large and small. The decision to erect permanent structures in Aristotelous Square for the purpose of facilitating order clearly has a specific goal.
At the same time, the restoration of the Toumba lane by two young architects introduces another dimension. So it will be very interesting to see how this undeclared war develops.
Restoration of shoreline
One shouldn’t be deceived by the rhetoric of Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos and his gripe about the “Athenian state that does nothing.”
A lot is happening in Thessaloniki at the moment and not all of it is due to any initiative by Athens. The signs of development and the push to improve the city can be seen just by taking a stroll along the waterfront. The area around the White Tower is being excavated for refurbishment, delayed due to the discovery of ancient ruins on the site. The Central Archaeological Council ruled that these could be covered over, but then former deputy culture minister Petros Tatoulis seemed interested in reviewing the issue — to no purpose, as it turned out.
Nevertheless the Municipality of Thessaloniki, which is funding the project, took the initiative to amend the original design in order to include traces of the ancient foundations within the new ground cover.
The White Tower renovation is being done in accordance with an older design (by Katerina Tsigarida and associates) commissioned for the city’s term as Cultural Capital of Europe, something which was not done for Aristotelous Square.
The new coastline’s restoration will reach from the White Tower to the Concert Hall. The design (by Nikiforidis, Castro, Denisov and Cuomo) aims to retain the city’s familiar shoreline and the continuity of the landscape.
A central feature of the design are the 16 areas of greenery inside the coastal area forming a chain of “green rooms,” areas where an attempt is being made to preserve the familiar atmosphere of a private garden within public spaces — not large parks, but small spaces recalling gardens in village houses that used to be scattered along the eastern shore before the land reclamation of the 1970s.
As with every other town and city in Greece, it is not modern architecture that is changing Thessaloniki’s image.
The Cultural Capital organization resulted in no major new buildings, only the restoration of a few older ones (such as the Royal Theater, the Lazariston Monastery).
There are none of the aggressive architectural statements seen on some main streets in Athens (such as Kifissias Avenue), although this is not necessarily a bad thing. It might just reflect the waning of the economic dynamism that was a feature of the city in previous decades.
In contrast to what is happening in Athens, architectural activity is more evident in public buildings than in private office buildings — the new Town Hall, the Planetarium (designed by Panos Tzonos and Associates), the Technopolis near the airport (the world of Prodromos Nikiforidis and Bernard Cuomo), the Sports Museum at the Kaftantzogleio Stadium the Limani commercial center (by Rena Sakellaridou and Morfo Papanikolaou) at the city’s western entrance.
The complex transformation of the Toumba lane (by Tassos Biris) is also under way, as well as public spaces (a cultural center and multimedia center, Olympic-sized swimming pool) and outdoor sporting venues and parks.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...2/05/2006_69195
123-t - May 2, 2006 08:46 AM (GMT)
Fragile link between the city and the sea
For at least the past 10 years, the public of Thessaloniki has been treated to a vision of two great projects: the construction of a metro and an underwater road tunnel. The promises are traditionally rolled out every year at the Thessaloniki International Fair.
While obstacles to the metro have now been removed, doubts remain over the tunnel. Serious objections have been raised by academics and leading members of the local community. As with the planned embankment of the old seafront in the early 1990s, which was eventually abandoned after strenuous opposition from local bodies, the underwater tunnel raises concerns about the fragile link between the city and its signature seafront.
In theory, the project has political support, though Thessaloniki Prefect Panayiotis Psomiadis expressed reservations in the past. At the same time, leading architects and town planners are fighting to stop the project from being implemented.
Surprisingly, the Technical Chamber of Greece has not expressed a view either in favor of the project or against it. Aleka Gerolymbou, professor of town planning and regional development at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, noted that the benefit from reduced traffic congestion would be minimal compared to the damage to the seafront, even from such a narrow tunnel, by which “with unimpeded traffic moving at an expected average speed 35 percent faster than the present speed will emerge onto the new seafront avenue and continue along the existing roads and traffic lights,” she said. “In other words, in a densely populated residential area on the outskirts of the center, in which traffic is already heavily congested.”
Critics of the tunnel also note that construction of such a large project will necessitate new infrastructure (such as extra traffic lanes on the seafront, exit ramps and tollgates) that will downgrade the seafront and public areas.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...2/05/2006_69194
For at least the past 10 years, the public of Thessaloniki has been treated to a vision of two great projects: the construction of a metro and an underwater road tunnel. The promises are traditionally rolled out every year at the Thessaloniki International Fair.
While obstacles to the metro have now been removed, doubts remain over the tunnel. Serious objections have been raised by academics and leading members of the local community. As with the planned embankment of the old seafront in the early 1990s, which was eventually abandoned after strenuous opposition from local bodies, the underwater tunnel raises concerns about the fragile link between the city and its signature seafront.
In theory, the project has political support, though Thessaloniki Prefect Panayiotis Psomiadis expressed reservations in the past. At the same time, leading architects and town planners are fighting to stop the project from being implemented.
Surprisingly, the Technical Chamber of Greece has not expressed a view either in favor of the project or against it. Aleka Gerolymbou, professor of town planning and regional development at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, noted that the benefit from reduced traffic congestion would be minimal compared to the damage to the seafront, even from such a narrow tunnel, by which “with unimpeded traffic moving at an expected average speed 35 percent faster than the present speed will emerge onto the new seafront avenue and continue along the existing roads and traffic lights,” she said. “In other words, in a densely populated residential area on the outskirts of the center, in which traffic is already heavily congested.”
Critics of the tunnel also note that construction of such a large project will necessitate new infrastructure (such as extra traffic lanes on the seafront, exit ramps and tollgates) that will downgrade the seafront and public areas.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...2/05/2006_69194
123-t - May 2, 2006 08:47 AM (GMT)
Flashy design
If you happen to be driving out to Menemeni, past the slaughterhouses and the ruined (though extremely atmospheric) Fix complex on the western outskirts of the city, you can’t miss the line of new multicolored apartment blocks that have taken over formerly unbuilt land and deserted sites.
It is an impressive sight, and a welcome attempt at organized stylish construction (every balcony has been encased in plexiglass of different colors).
But it is also depressing when you take a closer look and see how close together all the buildings are.
To its credit, the construction company that is running the project requested studies from large architecture firms in Thessaloniki, which is unusual.
Unfortunately, the good intentions went no further.
Gaudy
It is a disappointingly shallow approach when a show of design is used to balance a glaring absence of common areas and elementary town infrastructure.
The first residents have already moved in and pedestrians have to navigate muddy roads and piles of building materials. Compared with the gaudy apartments at Menemeni, workers’ residences that were built back in the 1930s look like villas designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...2/05/2006_69193
If you happen to be driving out to Menemeni, past the slaughterhouses and the ruined (though extremely atmospheric) Fix complex on the western outskirts of the city, you can’t miss the line of new multicolored apartment blocks that have taken over formerly unbuilt land and deserted sites.
It is an impressive sight, and a welcome attempt at organized stylish construction (every balcony has been encased in plexiglass of different colors).
But it is also depressing when you take a closer look and see how close together all the buildings are.
To its credit, the construction company that is running the project requested studies from large architecture firms in Thessaloniki, which is unusual.
Unfortunately, the good intentions went no further.
Gaudy
It is a disappointingly shallow approach when a show of design is used to balance a glaring absence of common areas and elementary town infrastructure.
The first residents have already moved in and pedestrians have to navigate muddy roads and piles of building materials. Compared with the gaudy apartments at Menemeni, workers’ residences that were built back in the 1930s look like villas designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...2/05/2006_69193
Lord - May 2, 2006 09:47 AM (GMT)
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| To the right are the new housing complexes of Menemeni and Evosmos, not exactly ugly, perhaps because they are very new. Balconies are draped with minimalist displays of laundry hanging out to dry and stocked with satellite dishes and plastic cupboards. They are mostly the homes of Russian and Albanian immigrants and ethnic Greeks from the former Soviet bloc. |
BS...the writer is for shure Athenian...e?
Nea Politeia Evosmos...is among the nicest Neighborhood in Thessaloniki...No parking problems at all..New buildings...good facilitys...Laundry hanging out the balcony...? kala malakas einai ...? Albanians and russian imigrants..? :hammer:
520 000 drx the quadratmeter......no shit...Albanians can buy ...Albanians are mostly around Kassandrou street....behind the Ministry of Northern greece (Dioikitirio)
Imigrants from russia...?
Polihni...Stavroupoli...Kordelio...
Kalamaria my ass...Evosmos rules man... :thumbsup:
My 2 cents ...
as for the Metro..and other necessary structures...Yes alot of things are done...but there is more to do yet...
123-t - May 3, 2006 08:37 AM (GMT)
Thessaloniki is gasping for air
Thessaloniki continues to be one of Europe’s most polluted cities despite a drop, recorded over the past four years, in the concentration of air pollution particles in the city’s atmosphere, experts said yesterday.
The atmosphere in Thessaloniki contains on average 67.6 micrograms of air pollution particles (known as PM10 and PM2.5) per cubic meter, according to figures for the period between 2000 and 2004 made public yesterday by the environmental department of Thessaloniki Municipality. This is significantly more than the 50-microgram European Union limit.
However, the situation has improved since 1999, when the concentration of airborne particles had reached 89.2 micrograms per cubic meter.
Experts attributed the reduced presence of such particles — produced by fuel-powered vehicles and factories — to the circulation of more environmentally friendly vehicles, the shift of traffic from central roads to Thessaloniki’s ring road and a fall in industrial production.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...3/05/2006_69232
Thessaloniki continues to be one of Europe’s most polluted cities despite a drop, recorded over the past four years, in the concentration of air pollution particles in the city’s atmosphere, experts said yesterday.
The atmosphere in Thessaloniki contains on average 67.6 micrograms of air pollution particles (known as PM10 and PM2.5) per cubic meter, according to figures for the period between 2000 and 2004 made public yesterday by the environmental department of Thessaloniki Municipality. This is significantly more than the 50-microgram European Union limit.
However, the situation has improved since 1999, when the concentration of airborne particles had reached 89.2 micrograms per cubic meter.
Experts attributed the reduced presence of such particles — produced by fuel-powered vehicles and factories — to the circulation of more environmentally friendly vehicles, the shift of traffic from central roads to Thessaloniki’s ring road and a fall in industrial production.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...3/05/2006_69232
Lord - May 3, 2006 09:33 AM (GMT)
You know iam living in Thessaloniki...and by far my city is cleaner than some other known metropole...
Iam smelling something else about this articel...
Maybe if the Major was a PASOK horse the "smoke" alarm wouldnt mind anyone...?
and by the way which smoke alarm>>>?
we have the strong wind of Bardar...which allways cleans the city in no time...
Damn jelous people arent they>>>??
They should start making the Metro...make some Parkings more inside the city....and the city is 1A...
OURE...pou tha baletai sto stoma sas thn Saloniki mas...haivania...fagane me thn sesoula gia thn Olimbiada...kai tora psahnoume kai ta resta...?(Lord swearing on the former GoV) :D
ai siktir...
Iam smelling something else about this articel...
Maybe if the Major was a PASOK horse the "smoke" alarm wouldnt mind anyone...?
and by the way which smoke alarm>>>?
we have the strong wind of Bardar...which allways cleans the city in no time...
Damn jelous people arent they>>>??
They should start making the Metro...make some Parkings more inside the city....and the city is 1A...
OURE...pou tha baletai sto stoma sas thn Saloniki mas...haivania...fagane me thn sesoula gia thn Olimbiada...kai tora psahnoume kai ta resta...?(Lord swearing on the former GoV) :D
ai siktir...
Lord - May 3, 2006 09:43 AM (GMT)
here is an older pic of my baby...you know we are changing the prominade of Thessaloniki...at Leforos Nikis...amazing changes...around the White tower...will be done...they started allready
I just love this city...no american BS skyliners...classical and old fashion...I hope we will stay like this for ever... ;)
123-t - May 3, 2006 09:56 AM (GMT)
Thanks for the promotion.
Of course, the Bardaris wind "cleans" the city but should this lead to the conclusion that there is no pollution problem at all ?
It cannot.
There is still vast untapped potential in energy efficiency not only in Salonika but in Greece as a whole.
Of course, the Bardaris wind "cleans" the city but should this lead to the conclusion that there is no pollution problem at all ?
It cannot.
There is still vast untapped potential in energy efficiency not only in Salonika but in Greece as a whole.
Lord - May 3, 2006 09:59 AM (GMT)
Restaurants and Nightlife in Thessaloniki
Apart from the many elegant restaurants in the city and the suburbs, there are also numerous "ouzeries" and taverns. Excellent grilled meat and chicken are served at the popular shops along the coast on the outskirts of town Check out the newly renovated Ladadikia district near Aristolelous square where there are a number of traditional restaurants and ouzeries on Odos Katouni. This is a working class area similar to Psiri in Athens which has been developed into an area of eating and entertainment. Frommers and Lonely Planet raved about Zythos, Frommers about the food and LP because you can get a pint of Murphy's for 1200 drs. Sounds good to me. They both also like Ta Spata on Aristoleous square, Ta Nicia at 13 Koromila for seafood, Stratis on Nikis street and Rogotis on Venizelou street. Lonely Planet likes O Loutros Fish Taverna on Kominon street and Aderfia tis Pyxarias at 9 Platia Navarino.
But of all the recommendations the one that looks most enticing to me is the Aristotelous Ouzerie in an arcade off the left of Aristotelous a block from the waterfront. I ate here with my cousin George, a monk on Mount Athos, many years ago and apparently it has only gotten better. LP also recommends Kokoretsina in Ladadikia, which combines two of my favorite Greek words, Retsina (resinated Greek wine) and Kokoretsi (livers, spleens, hearts and whatever else comes out of a sheep, stuffed into a large intestine and grilled.
Music Halls, night clubs, discoteques are open till late at night, whereas those who prefer the bouzouki music can choose from a range of special tavernas in the area near the Airport. There are a number of bars and clubs near the White Tower. Discos are generally on the outskirts of town near the airport where the noise is less likely to bother people. Traffic on 3rd of September street and L'Apogee are in town but probably not open in the summer. Avantaz is a Greek Music club at 156 Agia Demitriou. Mylos is a large entertainment complex in the warehouse district of the port. There you will find bars, galleries, restaurants, cafes, theatres and plenty of varieties of live music but difficult to get to without a taxi.
Many people do the Volta(evening stroll) along the harbor from Aristotelis Square all the way beyond the White Tower where it gets quieter and more romantic. You will certainly find somewhere to sit that interests you on the way there or back.
There are a number of movie theatres almost all showing English language films with Greek subtitles. Some are indoor and some are outdoor which are generally open only in the summer. But like anywhere in Greece sometimes the best idea is to wander around and peer into the various ouzeries, cafeneons and restaurants until you find something special.
www.ert.gr/aerialphoto/ en/topia-thessaloniki.asp
Lord - May 3, 2006 10:01 AM (GMT)
Indeed ...if we would use the MOUNO-thiela of Thessaloniki as a wind resource than we would gain energy not only for greece but for the whole Balkan... :roflmao:
123-t - May 3, 2006 10:08 AM (GMT)
Yes, and parallelly productivity would be increased.
Lord - May 3, 2006 10:14 AM (GMT)
Sory for making a joke...wasnt on purpose...maybe I overeact...if it comes to judge our city...iam a very big topikistis...
another energy whole in Thessaloniki is my dear friend the recycling...we lack in this brand...and lose alot of money each year...
another energy whole in Thessaloniki is my dear friend the recycling...we lack in this brand...and lose alot of money each year...
123-t - May 3, 2006 10:29 AM (GMT)
No need to apologize.
A father would potentially do the same if someone had critisized his child.
In the environmental sector there is vast growth potential especially regarding sustainability which should be a priority in economic policies since otherwise large future growth potentials are neglected for the purpose of maintaining short-term growth.
A father would potentially do the same if someone had critisized his child.
In the environmental sector there is vast growth potential especially regarding sustainability which should be a priority in economic policies since otherwise large future growth potentials are neglected for the purpose of maintaining short-term growth.
123-t - May 7, 2006 09:36 AM (GMT)
Cleaner air could save thousands of lives
People in Athens and Thessaloniki would live a year longer and there would be some 5,000 fewer deaths annually if air pollution levels in those cities were lower, according to a study made public yesterday.
Researchers from the Medical School of Athens University said that a reduction in the number of lung-ravaging PM10 and PM2.5 air pollution particles would have a discernible impact on the health of the cities’ population.
The research team found that if the levels of PM10 and PM2.5 particles in the atmosphere were below 20 micrograms per cubic meter in either city, some 5,066 fewer people would die from heart disease, lung cancer and other diseases.
The Municipality of Thessaloniki said this week that the number of airborne particles averaged 67.6 micrograms per cubic meter between 2000 and 2004.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...6/05/2006_69374
People in Athens and Thessaloniki would live a year longer and there would be some 5,000 fewer deaths annually if air pollution levels in those cities were lower, according to a study made public yesterday.
Researchers from the Medical School of Athens University said that a reduction in the number of lung-ravaging PM10 and PM2.5 air pollution particles would have a discernible impact on the health of the cities’ population.
The research team found that if the levels of PM10 and PM2.5 particles in the atmosphere were below 20 micrograms per cubic meter in either city, some 5,066 fewer people would die from heart disease, lung cancer and other diseases.
The Municipality of Thessaloniki said this week that the number of airborne particles averaged 67.6 micrograms per cubic meter between 2000 and 2004.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_artic...6/05/2006_69374