The paper aims to be a contribution to the resolution of the deep crisis that has been
affecting the current urban realities, facing the problem in all of its aspects, such as those of …

The issue of the concept of development and urban planning in an optimal manner is as old
as cities. It has not yet been established which human activities are to be considered as …

The present paper represents a conceptual and methodological general framework which
will offer the ground for future applicative demarches aiming to identify some sustainable …

Contemporary transformations of urban and metropolitan structures are associated with
many different issues and can become a subject of interdisciplinary research. The purpose …

Today, uncertainties and doubts concerning the future of urban society are apparent
everywhere. How can the unsustainable lifestyles of the modern world be changed in order …

Contemporary cities differ in many structural and functional respects. Each of them has its
own unique endogenous conditions and various external conditions. For the authors, the …

Desolated scenarios of new ruins caused by the disposal of industrial areas, no longer
efficient to the needs of the actual production, dominate the landscape of the postmodern …

Being exposed to the multiple needs of their contemporary users, the cities from all over the
world have been forced to activate all capacities in order to intensify their land use, adjust …

Urban areas in historic cities resemble a living organism that evolves in parallel to social
transformation processes, shaping the material substrate that expresses identity and …

The presented research is a review containing an original synthesis on some of the causes
of urban development problems. The article covers historical and contemporary aspects of …