Aspects Regarding Urban Green Areas in the Post-Communist Cities of Romania. Case Study - The City of Timisoara

摘要

The intensification of the worldwide urbanization process brings to date the issue of urban green areas. In post-communist Romania, the cities, already having a high density due to the systematization projects of the communist regime, had difficulties in managing the pressure on space. The initiation of the debates considering the joining of Romania to the European Union brought to the interest of professional groups and the civil society the concern for such issues as life quality, housing quality. The paper presents a general quantitative evolution of the urban green areas in the cities of Romania in the last 20 years and illustrates the aspects of this approach by a case study of Timisoara, the second largest city of the country after the capital, Bucharest, and one of the first cities interested in controlling the evolution of this area by means of strategic planning policies, including spatial planning.