Modernising Bucharest between Western Architectural Influences and Local Policies in the Second Half of the 19th Century
Modernising Bucharest between Western Architectural Influences and Local Policies in the Second Half of the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: Many factors – equally environmental and social ones – influenced the development of Bucharest in the second half of the 19th century. Bucharest could spread almost indefinitely because it is a plains city and there are no geographical factors that could have stopped its growth. In addition, the lack of town walls (whose important defensive function is well documented for other European cities such as Belgrade, Budapest, or Vienna), also had not effect. Therefore, urban growth took place in a somewhat chaotic way, and one of the most important problems of the municipal authorities was to set limits to this uncontrolled expansion.

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