Intermediate results, activities for 2007

 

The activities during 2007 were: bibliographic research and national archives, on site investigations, synthesis reparation for the historical and for the present period.

Research methodology

 

The difficulties met during this research are partly due to the gaps in the historical research and the publications during the communist period.
We may classify the research methods in two categories:
- the first category groups the procedures which evaluate the role and the impactof the French and European model.
- the second category starts from resemblances between Bucharest and other French or European cities in order to search for the means of transmission of this similarities.

Three periods were identified:
- 1831-1921
- 1921-1947
- 1990-present time

 The research is based on different sources, such as:
- existing buildings
- city plans
- photos and ancient images
- archive documents
- official publications
- voyagers notes
- histories of Bucharest and Romania
- books and articles

Plans of Bucharest

 

We may classify Bucharest plans in three categories:
1. Plans from the XVIIIth century till 1848. Those plans are not ordered by local institutions, but by foreign armies.
2. Topographical plans. The fist one is drawn by Rudolf Artur Borroczyn, 1846-1848.
3. Cadastral plans, beginning from the First World War.

The most important historical plans between 1772 and 1920 are:
– 1772: military plan;
– 1781: plan by Franz Joseph Sulzer, published in Geschichte des Transalpinische Daciens , 1781;
– 1791 – plan by Ferdinand Ernst: Plan der Wallachischen Haupt Residenz Stadt Bukarest [Planul Bucureştiului, capitala Valahiei], 1791;
– 1791 – plan by Franz Purcel: Plan der Haupt und Residenz Stadt Bukarest in der großer Wallachey, 1791;
– 1807: plan of the Russian general Jan Festus Hartingh;
– 1828: plan by Sernskant;
– 1828: Russain Army plan ;
– 1834: lost 12 pages plan;
– 1842: plan by Vladimir de Blaremberg;
– 1846: Planul Bucureştului 1846, plan by Rudolf Artur Borroczyn;
– 1847: Planul Bucureştiului, plan by Gheorghe Ghica;
– 1852: Planul Bucureştului 1846, plan by Rudolf Artur Borroczyn;
– 1856: plan by Friedrich Jung;
– 1871-1875: plan by Pappasoglu;
– 1893: plan by Orăscu – Planul oraşului Bucureşti. Revăzut şi corectat conform rectificărei Dîmboviţei şi planurilor de aliniere ale stradelor şi bulevardelor sub direcţia Dlui G.A.Orěscu, Şeful Serviciului, 1893;
– 1899: plan by Institutul Geografic al Armatei – Planul Oraşului Bucureşti lucrat de Institutul Geografic al Armatei pentru Primăria Capitalei în al XXXIIIlea an al Domniei M.S. Regelui Carol I, 1899:
– 1911: Planul oraşului Bucureşti, Ediţie oficială;
– 1920: Noul Plan al oraşului Bucureşti / Ediţie oficială, căpitan Mihail C. If. Pântea, 1921

Bibliography

 

The bibliographical documentation was separated in several cathegories :
- Adminstrative and archive sources
- Periodicals
- General bibliography