The most important and sustainable contents that remained in the future
urban plans were formulated in this period: The city limit and the general urban
structure were defined, incl. the street and public transportation systems, the
zoning, the building specifications, the aesthetics and beautification as well as
the post-plan actions for the plan realization. Further on the concept was set
for new streets imposed by the entire road system, the zoning and building
codes with the specifications for the building heights, the building typologies
and the railway system. The major proposals of the projects in the contest,
1906, remained ardently debated for decades: the green belt and a green
network as a solution to limit the territorial expansion of Bucharest, the railway
axis cutting through the centre of the city along Dâmbovița river, the central
ring road, metropolitan railways to relate Bucharest with its surroundings or
the navigable link to the Danube.
Andreea Udrea
Fig. 2
Evolution of the road system
plan for Bucharest, from 1906 to- (Redrawings by A. Udrea
after de original plans)