Planning Capital Cities

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committee and the technical director. The execution phase had to be carried
out by the technical office, the committee and sub committees.^16


The guidelines for the Bucharest new urban plan

A debate between the strongest at that moment planning team took place
in the scientific journals in 1929 when C. Sfințescu and T. Rădulescu exposed
their different views on a Bucharest urban plan. T. Rădulescu^17 published two
comprehensive articles that were to become the guiding path when realizing
the Bucharest Guiding Urban Plan 1935. Those brought up a very clear and
innovative approach, quite different from the general debate in that time.
Some novelties comprised in T. Rădulescu’s early guidelines for a new urban
plan were:



  • the invitation to a certain caution when proposing great urban
    projects;

  • the split of the zoning plan in a layer defining the building types
    and a different layer defining the functional areas of the city, thus
    enabling a more accurate view and allowing a certain flexibility in
    the city’s structure;


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