BUCUREȘTI PRIN PRISMA CULTURII PLANIFICĂRII O abordare comparativă a proceselor de planifcare locală
BUCHAREST THROUGH THE PRISM OF PLANNING CULTURES A Comparative Approach to Local Planning Processes

Summary/Abstract: The incentive to start this research was the observation of extensive and particular suburbanisation patterns that can be noticed in the periphery of Bucharest. The different speeds and types of suburbanisation that can be noticed in the fringe of Bucharest, in the different administrative units, reveal a different development typology based on divergent planning approaches and the use of planning tools that derive from the planning legislation. This uneven and differentiated approach to planning is made possible through a decentralised and very territorially fragmented urbanisation process. The phenomenon is approached through the theoretical basis of Planning Cultures. The theory is introduced by exploring the origins of the concept and the most recent debates about it. Then the article focuses on the assessment of the Planning Departments in Bucharest utilising the methodological tool of the Cultured Planning Model developed by Knieling and Othengrafen. The three levels of Societal Environment, Planning Environment and Planning Artifacts of their model are evaluated through an overview of Planning in Romania and semi-structured interviews with planning officers in the planning departments. The two contrasting case studies selected, in the south of Bucharest and the north, provide an interesting ground for exploring the use of the planning instruments that lead into contrasting suburbanisation patterns where they work and make the case to argue that different local planning cultures exist within the Metropolitan Area of Bucharest and planning instruments work in conflicting ways as inhibitors and catalysts of urban development.

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