Bucarest, faire la ville entre héritages et mimétisme

Bucharest, which aspires to play a major regional role, has to face Ceausescu's unfinished urbanism. The capital presents various faces, the occidental and the oriental, the villager and the modernity's window. The "transition" period had to articulate these various strata. But the hesitations between to assume the inheritances and a slavish mimicry slow down the reshaping. The liberalization of the ground and the retrocessions strenghthened the inherited structures and kept inhabitants captive. The lack of resources and the fragmented governance do not facilitate the emergence of original development ways. The European integration is then as much an opportunity as a challenge.