Evoluţia spaţiilor publice verzi urbane în oraşul Timişoara
The evolution of public green urban spaces in the city of Timişoara

Summary/Abstract: The uprising degree of urbanization in the last decades, with its increasing number of tall buildings and high densities, makes green areas within the perimeter of cities very important in our days. The paper brings to attention a new problem that has emerged recently, that of a constant tendency for the mineralization of urban public spaces in the city of Timişoara. This proccess is unfortunate for a town which has been considered for many decades the city of parks and roses and still fights for this title. According to local administrative reports, a lot of work regarding the maintenance and evidence of existing green spaces has been continuously done. Even so, a high number of mature trees has been cut and new urban design interventions consist of large mineral areas. The result is unused public space (sometimes just covered with concrete), without the ability to gather people, to create urban life and to draw up activities. New trees are being planted, unfortunately not so much for their ecological importance but mainly for satisfying criteria such as: ease of maintenance, questionable aesthetics and recently the idea of being moved from one public space to another. Such possibility may be of interest in particular cases, but it cannot work as a proper plantation of trees that reduces air/noise pollution, creates a better local micro climate or shades large urban areas. The paper is based on the study of several old maps and images of Timişoara and their correlation with the present situation in order to determinate the evolution of green public spaces within the city and to show where it may be possible to create such places even in the context of a dense urban tissue.

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