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Timisoara city - study on sustainable development aspects
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gridan, Maria Roberta Alionescu, Adrian David, Viorica |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Until recently the human main occupation consisted in obtaining material benefits, regardless of the used means and their effects on the environment. With the rapid urbanization as a result of unprecedented industrialization in the second half of the twentieth century, the process of continuous development is more closely investigated. The notion, sustainable development proposes the awareness of our actions effects on the environment which in the future will affect us too and it also provides methods through which human activities will not harm nature. Because sustainability is a concept so vast, sometimes too many different problems are put under the umbrella of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy, removing attention from the real non-sustainable development directions. This strategy' stated goal is to act for continuous improvement of life quality both for present and future. But this can only be achieved in communities capable of using resources wisely and efficiently and discovering their ecological potential of the economy, ensuring prosperity, environmental protection and social cohesion. As a community to be truly sustainable must adopt an approach that takes into account three main directions: economic, environment and cultural resources. This paper aims to present how Aims and background. Sustainable urban development is a multidimensional process driven by a series of interrelated economic, demographic, social and environmental changes. The strategic principles of sustainable urban development from the territorial analysis point of view are considered to be: the geographical principle of territorial equity meaning the reinforcement of small- and medium-sized towns, the integration of towns and peripheral neighbourhoods in urban networks smoothing the interurban and intraurban inequalities and differentiations in order for everyone to have an adequate quality of life; the economic principle of the reinforcement of endogenous potential, aiming toward a reinforcement of the economic urban structures and territorial competition; the ecological principle of the preservation of the ecosystem, aiming towards the long-term preservation of the environment and renewal of the resources; the sociological principle of social equity aiming to counteract the effects of poverty and social exclusion in urban areas; the political principle of territorial autonomy aiming to give more space to the decentralisation in decision-making related to urban developments (Karaguni 2013). Throughout history, the most important city from western Romania, Timisoara, passed through many phases of urban development. During the communist period the city suffered a lot of transformations specific to those times: the lost of many historical buildings. In the context of the candidacy to the "European Cultural Capital", the urban future plans must take into account both the historical aspect and the requirements of a 21 th century city. The following paper aims to highlight the urban development of Timisoara City, from its first official mention to the present time. Also, there are presented the city' development directions and visions for the next years. Results and Discussion. Timisoara City the current residence of Timis County, documentary attested for over 730 years, is situated in Timis Plain. This plain is crossed by Bega and Timis rivers, which presence influenced the development of the locality from the fortified citadel with strongholds, water ditches and earth waves to nowadays city. At the last census, in 2011, Timisoara had a population of 319279 people, with a density of 2622 inhabitants/sqrm. The city on Bega River is twinned with important European cities like: Faenza, Gera, Karlsruhe, Mulhouse, Rueil-Malmaison, Szeged, Treviso, Palermo and Novi Sad (www.primariatm.ro). |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ecoterra-online.ro/files/1447612268.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
