Urban Landscape- Cubic Stone Streets in Historical Areas, Advantages and Disadvantages, Case Study Timisoara Versus Rome

3rd World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning Symposium

土木建筑工程;文学

Mohora, Irina^1 ; Anghel, Anamaria Andreea^1

Architecture and Urbanism Faculty, POLITEHNICA University Timisoara, 2A Traian Lalescu Street., Timisoara

300223, Romania^1

关键词: Feasibility studies;    Historical areas;    Integral part;    Landscape architects;    Modernization programs;    Neighbourhood;    Original images;    Urban landscape;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/471/8/082028/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/471/8/082028

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Cubic stone streets are part of the identity of historic cities. Over the last decades, most of the streets have been replaced by new but more perishable finishes, which have seriously damaged their historical appearance. Timisoara, the city on the Bega River, also called Little Vienna, still owns fourteen historic streets covered with cubic stone from the interwar period. From an urban point of view, there are two coherent assemblies of cobbled streets in Elisabetin interwar neighbourhood and four other isolated streets in other areas of the city. Architects, landscape architects and culture people, inhabitants of Timisoara, want to stop the approach of local councillors who adopted in 2016 a feasibility study on the modernization of the last fourteen cubic stone streets by asphalting them. The immediate result of this article is the awareness of those involved in the city's problems by accessing a detailed and clear explanation of their importance to the city and the consequences of removing the cubic stone streets from the city. The multiple advantages of these streets are studied in direct connection with the area they belong to, depending on their local need and the benefits they give. A simple comparison with cities from Italy, such as Rome, can make us not only more aware of their importance, but also teaches us that without a clear set of rules on their maintenance over time, the city could not still benefit from their existence, after hundreds of years of use. Historic areas are massively losing their appearance once the old pavement is replaced by asphalt cover. The areas of the cobbled streets mentioned in the modernization program are part of the historical protective areas or even integral part of the Elisabetin neighbourhood monument areas. To uncover the streets in question and to deprive them of their original image of cubic stone pavement, it simply represents the destruction of the historical identity of an entire area and therefore the image of the city.