Working Paper

This paper focuses on difficulties in promoting social sustainability in Athens that are relatied both to a range of factors impeding the exacerbation and visibility of social inequality and to features of the Greek political culture, and namely of the traditional populism and clientalism, that also impede the development of action on a social concern basis. This focus follows a discussion of the content of sustainability as a political projectand its context dependency, the latter being illustrated by the problems for its implementation in the Greek context.