No means, no meaning or heritage versus politics in Romania
No means, no meaning or heritage versus politics in Romania

Summary/Abstract: The article presents some effects of the discrepancy between the goals set by politics in Romania with regard to the preservation of the built cultural heritage and its real situation. The text begins by approaching the built protected areas in Bucharest, enforced on a by far smaller area than the actual, present and future cultural resource, as this has been identified and delineated by the substantiation studies developed in 1997-1998. For instance, a rather large fragment of urban tissue in the North-West, beyond the Berzei and Buzeşti streets, has been simply left out from the perimeter protected by the specific master plan, adopted to this purpose by the city council in 2000. The reason for basically ignoring these cultural values was already comprised in the general master plan, adopted the same year, and unfortunately belongs to those of its provisions that have been carried out. It may be of interest that the turning of the two mentioned streets into a freeway that passes the town centre has been done despite a supplementary study from 2006 that, on its turn, has discouraged the given urban planning operation. For reasons of a misunderstood urban development also the south-eastern part of Bucharest has been sacrificed, even if there, according to as recent mapping, the cultural resource of both properties and urban tissue could be still saved from destruction – if there was genuine political will to this end.

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