The narrative of the various conditions, situations, and historical events that determined the development of a rural settlement so close to the city center as Patissia necessitates highlighting the area's relationship with the broader history of Athens - urban planning, spatial planning, factual.
We must not forget that, over the years, the various changes that occurred due to natural or sociopolitical factors (natural disasters, e.g., drought, diseases, land abandonment, wars, urbanization) greatly affected the environment where people live and work.
...Today, Amerikis Square, where I reside, like every square in the Patissia area, experiences a "conventional" "forced" coexistence of religions, languages, and cultures. With justified and unjustified complaints, with completely different feelings, visible and hidden from another era, mixed with compassion, solidarity, fear, and hostility, some express them, and others bury them deep inside, with a state of "limited responsibility" that tries, it is true. We fail to understand what is happening, but mainly why they happen in such a chaotic manner. Our responsibilities, obligations, but also our rights, a tangled mess. (From the presentation on the back cover of the book)