Софийската улица като публично пространство в края на XIX и началото на XX век
Sofia Streets as Public Space - by the end of 19th and beginning of 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The main function of streets as lines of communication enabling transportation and connection between different parts of city potentially turns them into .non-places.(M. Augé) and into .deprived. public spaces where people only pass but never stay in (R. Sennett). However, the history of Sofia streets at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century, when the small city with its oriental layout began to develop into a capital of the newly liberated Bulgarian Kingdom, reveal the complex process of regeneration of the physical city (urbs) paralleled with its European re-imagining and development of new civic culture of its inhabitants (civitas). In this process Sofia streets are turned into authentic public spaces where people learn to behave publicly and to establish new democratic rules of conviviality.

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