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Pedestrian Zones As Important Urban Strategies in Redeveloping the Community - Case Study: Alba Iulia Borough Park

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Pedestrian Zones As Important Urban Strategies in Redeveloping the Community - Case Study: Alba Iulia Borough Park
 
Creator BLAGA, Oana Elena; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Human Geography, Faculty
of Geography, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 
Subject pedestrian zone; pedestrians; rehabilitation; urban development; social impact.
 
Description The pedestrian zone issue is by far an important matter in the context of urban regeneration. Cities which adopted this strategy – the pedestrian zones – have recorded better urban attitudes regarding the urban environment, a continuous growth of the urban quality, an improved urban ecosystem  and continuous attractiveness for investment and  tourism. This article explores the evolution of the pedestrian zones as ideas in utopian urban models in the early 1900 and later as efficient environmental friendly strategies adopted by cities. After identifying the path this concept followed, from a simple idea to an important strategy of urban development, the paper focuses on the major characteristics and benefits of the pedestrian precincts. Next, the article focuses on the newest pedestrian zone in one of the Romanian cities, Alba Iulia and it tries to identify the types of impact this area has so far on the community and entire city.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
Contributor The author wishes to thank for the financial support provided from programs co-financed by THE SECTORAL OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT 2007 – 2013
Contract no.: POSDRU/88/1.5/S/60185 – ‘Innovative Doctoral Studies in a knowledge ba
 
Date 2013-02-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/84
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2013: Issue No. 38 E/February; 5-22
18422845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/84/80
 
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