Reconsidering the suburbs in the context of expansive urbanization
Reconsidering the suburbs in the context of expansive urbanization

Author(s): Oana-Diana CIUPERCA
Subject(s): Human Geography, Regional Geography
Published by: INCD URBAN-INCERC
Keywords: urban sprawl; functionality; polarization; morphology; development; hierarchy
Summary/Abstract: The article brings forward two main ideas: the living fact that urban sprawl is nowadays the most common reaction of hyper-urbanisation of the big cities and the lack of experience in the european space in how to deal with this phenomenon, in terms of people’s needs, the role that these satelite settlements receive in the urban system, and the dependency to the „mother city”. Nevertheless, Romanian cities have yet to find a solution for preventing the uncontrolable urban sprawl, which leads to economic and social gaps between these new areas and the main city’s. The reference suburb used for comparisson is Pantelimon Town, a small urban area, adiacent to Bucharest, and completely dependent of it’s range of services and labour market.

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