Re: City Plan of Athens
From: Jenny Guy (jenstermeistergmail.com)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 11:04:11 -0700 (PDT)
I think it's this, available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VelFkGje-Tw

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 4:46 AM Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sociocracy.info>
wrote:

> There is a wonderful documentary on city planning in Athens — how the
> planners designed the city to express and reinforce their democratic
> values. The center of the city was a large common space — as large as 6-8
> football fields. They used hectares  for the exact measurements which I
> have not a clue about and since it was a British film, I’m not even sure
> what kind of football. But basically the commons was very big. And there no
> church or palace in the center.
>
> Around the center were homes — now just foundations — of equal size built
> on a grid. To stress equality, the homes were the same size.
>
> I found this on Amazon Prime Video and haven’t looked around to see where
> else it can be found. It’s not impossible that some libraries have it. Or
> it may be on the BBC website.
>
> Building the Ancient City: Athens. 2016. "How city planning reflected and
> supported the open government." BBC.
>
> No, the democracy didn’t include women or slaves, but it was very strong
> and thoroughly argued and expressed in the city governance.
>
> Sharon
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