Shifts. A brief history of public plazas in central BucharestAs a personal interpretation, one may notice the development of Bucharest’s
public space under the empire of should. Should became the designated attitude
accompanying political and cultural shifts, since is needed time to settle, be
metabolized and practiced. Therefore, as a task to fellow critics, practicing
professionals and public alike, while in the midst of should be worth of an
European capital, what is Bucharest and what is its present, public space?
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3 See Prager, W., 1943, Bucureşti oraşul contrastelor, Viking Verlag Berlin
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5 See Arhitectura Magazine, 1960
6 See Informația Bucureştilor, april 1971
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8 See Leahu, Gh., Bucureştiul dispărut, ed. Arta Grafică 1995
9 See Antonovici, V., “Piața Universității - loc memorial?”, Sfera Politicii, nr 139, 2009, pg. 94
10 See Bucuresti 2000, competition catalogue, 1996.
11 See Mihăilescu, V., quoted by Buică, V., in „Spațiul public în oraşele din România”, Igloo
magazine nr 50, 2006, http://www.igloo.ro/articole/spatiul-public-in-orasele-din-romania.