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Hannes Swoboda

Foreword

Harald Heppner

Capital city as national vision at the Serbs, Bulgarians and

Romanians

Mirjana Roter Blagojević

The modernization and urban transformation of Belgrade in the

19 th and early 20th century

Monica Sebestyen

Urban image and national representation: Bucharest in the 19th

and the beginning of the 20th century

Andreea Udrea

The first urban plans of Bucharest in the rise of the 20th century

Maria Duda

Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central Bucharest

Hristo Ganchev, Grigor Doytchinov

Sofia before World War II: urban design as a cultural implication

Miruna Stroe

Bucharest’s urban planning instruments during the communist

regime: systematization sketches, plans, projects and interventions

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