Planning Capital Cities

Bucharest’s beginning as a capital of the Romanian province of Wallachia dates back precisely 355 years, in 1659. Romanian provi ...

1859 sees the unification of the Romanian provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia under one elected ruler of the Romanian descent, A ...

Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest Fig. 3 The Palace building, 1846 (left) St. Sava School and Monast ...

its public plaza, but the relationship between the two changed as the interposition of the Academy Boulevard disconnected them. ...

Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest Fig. 5 The transformation of the Palace: single edifice in 1846 (t ...

Maria Duda Fig. 6 The transformation of St. Sava’s inner garden, 1846 (top) into the Academy Square, 1899 (bottom). (Duda) ...

Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest Nonetheless, two discrepancies marked the period. Firstly, there w ...

Catargiu Plaza (Romana) finally received its own representative building in 1923, the Commercial Academy, relocated from Palace ...

Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest Fig. 9 The Palace Plaza (Revolution), 1911 (top) and the Universit ...

and absorbed all power. As Bucharest should have become the capital to suit his political force, extensive demolitions are carri ...

Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest the plaza was lost, but a better accessibility ensured. The partia ...

We may identify three distinct steps in the implementation of shifts during the communist period: first, changing functions and ...

Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest Fig. 13 The Victoriei Plaza and the underpass built in 1986, cross ...

in order to diminish pedestrian presence nearby administrative buildings. The result of both was to deprive the public of its sp ...

Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest equal architectural expression, that did not manage to dominate or ...

The Palace, closed for restauration works for 10 years, has regained its public function, as National Museum of Art, the Univers ...

Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest As a personal interpretation, one may notice the development of Bu ...

The systematic research of Sofia’s as well as Bulgaria’s history of urbanism starts in the 1970s. Previous works are a rarity or ...

Ottoman system and are declared to be a personal ownership of high-ranked Turk dignitaries or of the sultan. During the Ottoman ...

Hristo Ganchev, Grigor Doytchinov achievement of the governmental sovereignty, marked by the Unification of the Principality of ...