Border Troubles: Urban Nature and The Remaking Of Public or Private Divides

see again Figure 3
): 1) "Hellenikon 
Metropolitan Park" including sports centers, and art and exhibition centers - about 200 
hectares. 2) One open green area - about 150 hectares. In addition, around these places, 
there are exclusive villas and luxury apartments, casinos, 7-star hotels, entertainment 
venues, shops, and restaurants. These are economically viable businesses. Officials said 
the planned park would be "open to the public." Now, the people there are demanding that 
1 km of beach in a part of the coast should be open to everyone. The problem is that 
"neither 
the park nor the beach has ever been declared state property." 
The authors of this study found that "there is no certainty about the property status of the 
2.5 km of coastline where hotels, private marinas, and houses are planned to be built. 
Decisions made around the regeneration of this city - public or private notions of 
experience and representation for "nature in the city" to flourish. The plan does not 
envisage a direct connection of the surrounding municipalities to the coast. Due to the 
private infrastructure that surrounds and demarcates the park, the park is passively 
accessible to everyone.
 
So, it is unclear what security mechanisms will be installed in their buildings so that 
everyone can enter freely. As a result, this situation affects the sense of freedom and public 
observation to some extent. This creates confusion about how behavior, policing and 
surveillance are managed in those places. As a result, the park can have an elitist character 
that prevents ordinary people from using it. 
The movement of activists demanding the protection of Hellenikon as a public property 
and its transformation into a public park also seems to have failed. Even public dialogue 
and participation in the privatization of Hellenikon or the development of the park was not 
allowed. So, those organizations are now on the verge of