Planning Capital Cities

The intervention plan was aiming to satisfy firstly the immediate manifested
needs and to secure the proper daily comfort of living and working and thus, by
a subtle adjustment of a certain behaviour, to move towards a modern urban
life. The plan also brought some great novelties in the planning technique as
follows:

• the distinction between kinds of city limits - the study limit versus
  the administrative limit that “did not interfere with the planning
  process and urban activity”^30 :


• the zoning became a usable tool through a detailed table that
  organized all the regulation specifications needed on each type of
  buildings;


• the proposal of an elaborated system of green spaces, with a complex
  hierarchy and specified regulations for each type of green space;


• the division of the plan into parts easier to manoeuvre: a brief
  presentation, maps for each layer of the proposal and annexes with
  certain details:


• the used photography as a research method and


• the cooperation between the administration and the builders.

Comparative analysis

Any kind of comparative analysis should acknowledge the PDS|35 coming from
the young maturity of the Romanian urban planning discipline, which was just
some few decades old.

PGS|21 vs PDS|35:

• plan as a method – plan as a handbook


• for an active productive city – for a protected city, for residence and
  leisure


• urban system of the city and its surroundings, the satellite towns –
  open city invading its territory, a planned invasion


• central area – protected area


• city divided in areas separately regulated – city regulated on
  functional layers, regulation toward a good building practice based
  on a certain urban behaviour


• technical, specialized and dependent on public administration,
  implemented through a detailed streets plan as a code to be used
  by public servants – general, easy to follow, implemented through a
  table for building regulations and maps published for the public use


• urban planning science, a progress of understanding the city –
  urban planning as a tool, a set of rules easy to use by anyone

Eng. Cincinat Sfințescu vs The Working Group

Being public servants with long careers, C. Sfințescu and the Working Group
members pursued the common goal of a successful plan that could have been

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