Translating Garden City in Bucharest: Social Housing Reform and the Planning of Disconnected Allotments (1906–1918)
Translating Garden City in Bucharest: Social Housing Reform and the Planning of Disconnected Allotments (1906–1918)

Summary/Abstract: My study examines the evolution of the Garden City concept in Bucharest, investigating how this concept was adopted in the social housing reform implemented by the authorities between 1906 and 1918. The aim of the research is to explain that, at least up to the end of the First World War, the Romanian technical elite assimilated the Garden City principles. Yet this did not result in the creation of Garden Cities or Garden Suburbs as was the case in Great Britain or in other European countries, but in allotments designed by public authorities in the outskirts of the cities. This paper aims to answer which were the principles the initiators of the Garden City promoted in Great Britain and how did Romanian architects and engineers translate and implement them in Bucharest.

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