Long-term challenges of Romanian urban network: Planning for regions with different background
Long-term challenges of Romanian urban network: Planning for regions with different background
Author(s): László CsákSubject(s): Architecture, Rural and urban sociology, Environmental interactions, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Romania; town planning; systematization; development; five-year plans; housing; architecture;
Summary/Abstract: Romanian development policy and planning always had a major goal, namely turning Romania from a rural country into a prosperous urbanized one. Rurality is associated with backwardness, poverty and with a not really proudly accepted past. In the present paper I try to identify the main periods of Romanian planning, and I also use statistical demographic time series in order to describe the present state and the trends of urbanization in Romania. Planning, when it was applied, had a decisive effect on Romanian urbanization, while lack of planning or inappropriate planning is marked by stops in increase of urban share.
- Issue Year: 29/2015
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 37-48
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
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