"Gia pente diamerismata kai ena magazi" is a documentary about how the process of "exchange" transformed the neighborhoods of major cities of Greece, particularly Athens and Pireus. "Exchange" is the process of a landowner making his land available to a building contractor so that an appartment building (with one or more shops on the ground floor) can be built. At the completion of the construction the landowner will receive a number of appartments and a shop for his own use while the contractor gets the rest of the appartments and shops, hence the title "In Exchange for Five Apartments and One Shop".This process, still very popular today, transformed the scenery of Athens in a radical manner converting neighborhoods of rooftop houses into ones of several-stories high buildings
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