Private interests, Urban planning, City planning, Legitimation and legality, Greece
Abstract
This article is a study of private interests' legitimation methods in the context of the Greek urban administration. The first part of the article examines the official institutions of private interests' participation in the decision making process of urbanisme. The second part of the article presents the unofficial mechanicms for the legitimation of private interests developping either in the form of judicial contest of the legality or in the form of extrajudicial contest of the legitimation of urban decisions. This article claims that the flourishing of unofficial mechanisms acts as a factor equilibrating the inadequacies of the official of private interests' legitimation.
