intentions”^3. An important factor for the peripheral
expansion is the large privatization program in this
period^4 , leading to the rapid privatization of the from
formerly state-owned industrial or agricultural land.The second period (2001–2007) is marked primary
by the EU candidacy and the accession in 2007. It is
in the same time characterized by the strengthening
of the discretionary private pressure of the real estate
sectors on the inbuilt land in the marginal areas of
Bucharest, having many consequences for the re-
polarization of the city and even for the birth of a major
unbalance between the center and the periphery.
The third episode (2008–2014) is characterized by
an effort of overcoming the economic crisis while
the urbanism is constantly amended in order to
adopt better the European model and the regional
development policies. The stagnation in the physical
expansion of the city can be seen as an opportunity
to re-consider the planning practices and as a starting
point of an authentic research on the new urban forms
of periphery.Fig. 1
Belsugului Road 2009, west of Bucharest (Military District
- Chiajna). (Stan)
Early urban expansion in Bucharest was based on the
desire of city residents to change their way of living,
the giving up indwelling in communist collective
neighborhoods, in favor of new peripheral neighborhoods,
much less equipped and organized than the previous.
Fig. 2
Urban Sprawl in West part of Bucharest, 2002 and
2014, Militari – Chiajna neighborhood.
(Google Earth)