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Dobrina Zheleva-Martins
First Steps Towards Modernization and Europeanization of Bulgarian
Town-Planning
Summary
The study focuses on the modernization of town-planning
in the major Bulgarian cities that took place during the 19th
century, shortly before and after Bulgaria’s Liberation from the
Turkish Rule.
The change in the town-planning paradigm is described
on the basis of a synchronic analysis of the street and cadastral maps
of Sofia, Plovdiv, Rousse, Varna, Stara Zagora, Bourgas, Kyustendil,
Veliko Turnovo and Vidin, as well as diachronic analyses of the same
cities, conducted in previous research projects.
The study traces the invariants in the articulation of
the urban fabric which emerged as the result of urban continuity and
historic tradition and which ensured the cities’ identity, as well
as the various new things that revolutionized and modernized the urban
structure.
The text is illustrated with plans and schemes.
The study will attract the interest for people involved
in the history of urban culture, town-planning and architecture, the
problems of modernity, modernization and europeanization and their
advance in the life and culture of the Bulgarians.
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