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The Power and the Man-Made Environment

Author(s): Dorel Abraham
Subject(s): Architecture, Governance, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Rural and urban sociology, History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Romania; Bucharest; totalitarianism; political regime; urban planing;

Summary/Abstract: The author is director of the Urban and Regional Sociology Centre and professor of sociology at the University of Bucharest The text is a fragment of the research program The Impact of the Urban Development Politics on Life Quality edited by the Urban and Regional Sociology Centre, Bucharest. The man-made environment in Romania is discussed on three levels: experts in town planning, designers and population. Documentary analysis and sociological questionnaire were used as investigation methods. The Romanian case is considered as meaningful for a virtual totalitarian regime sociology.

  • Issue Year: I/1993
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 47-58
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian