Institutional reforms on spatial issues in the context of the crisis and current urban planning challenges: experiences and reflections from the area of Halandri

The aim of this article is, through specific examples of spatial planning, to contribute to the assessment of the institutional reforms that have been implemented in Greece in the context of the recent debt crisis. Specifically, the article focuses on the urban planning processes in the Municipality of Halandri and especially on the institutional challenges faced in recent years by the revision process of the General Urban Plan of the Municipality and the development of the Urban Planning Study of the areas of Dukissis Plakentias Zone - Pefko Politis - Ethnos. The article explores critically how individual changes in the institutional framework for land tenure, spatial planning, and spatial governance affect the process of completing the two plans, seeking to highlight conflicts, contradictions, and dynamics that arise for regulating space in Greece.