CC-BYAthanassiou, Evangelia2024-12-122024-12-122024978-94-64981-82-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2338Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024'Green' urban development is the dominant paradigm of spatial planning and is framed by changing overarching concepts such as sustainability, resilience and more recently climate neutrality. As the Greek spatial planning system has incorporated the objectives of greening cities, the paper highlights the need to assess new tools of urban development and planning in Greece in terms of their cumulative impact on the urban landscape, both in terms of the image of the city and their actual contribution to the pressing goals of improving environmental conditions and adapting to climate emergency. The paper activates the concept of 'urban green grabbing' as introduced by Garcia-Lamarca et al. in 2022, that studies green urban development through a socio-political lens and highlights the grabbing of urban common resources that is promoted in the context of environmental protection and energy Through this perspective, the paper critically presents the nature of environmental incentives and planning tools related to urban greening, that were introduced during the financial crisis and discusses the outcomes of such tools in the image and the environmental conditions of densely built Greek cities. conservation. Keywords: urban green grabbing, planning tools, environmental incentives, Greek crisisEnglishopenAccessconferenceObject1300-1310