Planning Capital Cities

Urban image and national representation: Bucharest in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century ...

Bucharest urban planning is seen as a sequence of stages in the concentrated effort towards the creation of the urban plans: th ...

limited budgets for great urban projects hierarchy in the transportation system, leap from the network to the system the need f ...

urbanism. The 1906 Public Contest together with the Law, 1893, were the official recognition of the need for a Bucharest Urban P ...

city and conducted their approaches as interpretations of classical composition elements. It is also true that the guidelines we ...

The most important and sustainable contents that remained in the future urban plans were formulated in this period: The city lim ...

The General Urban Plan 1921 (Planul General de Sistematizare - PGS|21) In May 1914 young C. Sfințescu^8 was appointed as the Hea ...

The main proposals of PGS|21 were: the long term (50 to 60 years) development concept based on a population of a million inhabi ...

towards the regional planning by approaching the city in a system with the surrounding towns. Secondly, the PGS established the ...

D. Marcu’s method (the guidelines for the Higher Technical Committee, 1928): , formulated in1928, defined the aim of the plan as ...

committee and the technical director. The execution phase had to be carried out by the technical office, the committee and sub c ...

the complex system of green spaces opposed to the green belt system, formulated as a rational and efficient territorial limit; ...

decided to appoint a team for the new urban plan of Bucharest of six specialists from the Urban Plan Committee, with equal respo ...

The intervention plan was aiming to satisfy firstly the immediate manifested needs and to secure the proper daily comfort of liv ...

realized and properly used. The 1935 planning period was an opportunity for C. Sfințescu, a mature planner, to make up after the ...

plan”. The politicians used their popularity to announce and present the plan to the public. The media was also involved during ...

1 Lascu, N.: Legislație şi dezvoltare urbană. Bucureşti 1831 - 1952, doctoral thesis, IAUIM, Bucureş ti. 1997, 66. 2 Lascu, N.: ...

ment from 1920 till August 1934; professor of Urbanism and Public Works at the Superior School/Faculty of Architecture in Buchar ...

24 Architect Roger Bolomey (1883-1947) was educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris; the Director of A ...

Maria Duda Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest Introduction The study focuses on the central public sp ...