24 Architect Roger Bolomey (1883-1947) was educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des
Beaux Arts in Paris; the Director of Architecture Department of Bucharest City Hall bet-
ween 1923 and 1937; awarded second prize at the international competition for Belgrade
and Split Urban Plan, together with Arch. Ion Davidescu; created several urban plans for
small Romanian cities in 1924-1925.
25 Architect Ion Davidescu (1890-1980) was educated at the École Nationale Supérieure
des Beaux-Arts [National Superior School of Arts in Paris]; held managing positions in
Bucharest City Hall between 1923 and 1947; among winners at national and international
planning competitions: urban plans for Paris, Tekirghiol, Belgrade and Split; authored,
sometimes together with his father the Eng. Al. Davidescu, numerous urban plans for
great Romanian cities; professor of urban planning at Bucharest Polytechnics, the course
Construcția oraşelor [City development] together with his father Eng. Al Davidescu, and
from 1936 his own course Noțiuni de urbanism [Introduction in urban planning].
26 Engineer Teodor Rădulescu (1889-?) was educated at the Polytechnics in Berlin-Charlot-
tenburg; public servant working together with C. Sfințescu in the Bucharest Public Works
Department, held managing positions between 1926 and 1936.
27 All the discussions were registered in 68 written reports.
28 The plan consisted of a brief presentation of the preliminary phases, zoning chapter
- territorial limits, housing, zoning and building codes, green spaces and playgrounds,
circulation chapter - railways, airfare, navigation, roads, endowments chapter - monu-
ments and public buildings, public hygiene, supply system, public sanitation, aesthetics
and details chapter, historical landmarks chapter, law chapter. The plan also contained
a rich supplement with 11 maps with the existing and proposed situation, 2 tables with
regulation prescriptions and a detailed study for low income houses.
29 PDS, Planul Director de Sistematizare al Municipiului Bucureşti, Memoriu justificativ.
Bucureş ti, 1935 (PDS), introduction part, Editura Institutului Urbanistic al României
30 PDS, 1935: 13.
The first urban plans of Bucharest in the rise of the 20th century