Our home, our city

Are issues related to life in our cities ever going to be on the political parties' pre-elections agendas? Do political decisions determine what life is like in our cities or not?

Imagine how different things would be if the pre-election debate shifted from the usual - and increasingly indifferent to the average citizen - topics that are raised to create a sense of polarization, to the tangible business of day-to-day life. If, in short, the political debate was not so inferior and shortsighted, but made us think more, made us ponder our views on certain things. Why is the city being left out of the discussion of the pressing problems related to the environment and the terms of economic growth?

As Kathimerini pointed out recently, the case of the two historic Athenian cinemas - the Ideal and the Astor - that are headed for closure, compels us to look at the situation...