1) we will receive funds for culture and construction from the EU
2) in the first 4 years, there will be rings and rings of new houses around Bucharest. They have a pretty good organization, if we trust what they say. From what I've seen, they took a great decision and won't build the houses in new style. They are going to build most of them in a Brancovenesc (a unique Romanian) style.
3) the people from blocks will be moved in those houses. I mean moved, as in the houses have from 3 to 6 rooms, and in exchange for your apartment, they are going to give a small house with a small garden in the periphery for free.
- during the communist times, the whole city was filled with very stupid, idiotic, ugly-looking, grey, cube-shaped blocks of flats. The old charm of the city, "the small Paris", has been lost.
4) they are going to tear down all the blocks
5) they will build near the "Piata Unirii" (square of the unification) a series of blocks resembling the civic center style of Ceausescu (which was very nice IMO, unlike his normal blocks).
- in districts where (ugly) blocks are the main place of living, they are going to build good houses, completely remake (and reorganize) the streets (which are horrible), and small (3-floors maximum) stylish blocks.
6) they are going to make 3 centers of the city: the main center (the current actual center of the city), the industrial, (production and business) center, to the east of the actual center, the cultural center, to the west of the actual center, and the entertainment center, to the south-east of the city, right near my place!! They are going to make the biggest artificial fun-lake in Europe, and build some really modern streets and suspended ways from the Tineretului park (biggest of Bucharest) to the current empty area near me. There will also be casinos there (not that I care about that)
7) the industrial center will have skyscrapers. We have no skyscrapers currently, at all. The highest building in Bucharest is 23 floors tall, which is very low compared to the rest of the (civilized) world.
8) the culture center will be right at the west of the actual center, close to the main squares of Bucharest, along the shores of the Dambovita (the river that crosses Bucharest). They are going to repaint in nice colors all the buildings with potential there. They are going to just demolish all the ugly useless buildings and build something really nice. They want to make a romantic and cultural main street, between the "Piata Natiunilor Unite", and "Piata Eroilor". If the pics they've shown are really what's going to be made, it's great! Really.
9) the entertainment center will be very modern, unlike the cultural center.
I'm very excited that it's right near my place. It's going to be great fun going there.
10) they are additionally going to make a smaller center at the north of the actual main center of the city, near the "Victoriei" square.
11) as I said, the cultural center will be at the west, the industrial/business center will be at the east (the one with skyscrapers), and the "fun" center is going to be at the south-east, near the big park and my place. This means the city's productive/important areas will be mainly oriented on a west-east axis. The blocks of flats change will take place mainly in the south, and a little in the north (which is currently the best place to live in Bucharest).
12) considering Bucharest has a population growth rate of about 5% a year, with the boost these projects will get, it is expected to have almost 5 million inhabitants only in the city area in 5 years since the project is started, and by that time the urban area to have close to 7 million, making it third biggest city in Europe, after London and Paris.
Places I cannot afford!
The hilarious part is that there are only a million people in the middle of the prairies... and almost everyone STILL lives in suburbs. It is weird because there is very little transition. It is just suburb, suburb, suburb, then BAM, huge buildings.
