{"id":13155,"date":"2023-01-25T20:28:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2023-02-01T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:09:08","slug":"dossier-resita-a-city-on-the-move-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/dossier-resita-a-city-on-the-move-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Dossier: Re\u0219i\u021ba. A City on the Move (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The scale regeneration of an entire romanian city, and not of an energic metropolis, but of a post-industrial town, is the subject of a Dossier coordinated by Lorena Brează & Mugur Grosu and published in Zeppelin magazine no. 166 (summer 2022). We have undertaken an extended analysis, with detailed interviews, dates, etc., because Reșița – a centre of modernity ever since the 18th century, then subjected to brutal de-industrialization – is an example of rebirth. Unique in Romania and valuable enough to serve as an international model, even if the process is still underway. Here is the first part (the second part – here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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How to prepare and achieve change. Urban strategies and projects<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Intro, interviews: Lorena Brează<\/strong>
\nPhoto: Farkas Pataki, Daniel Pușcău, MKBT, Munții Carpati\/ Radu Ștefănescu<\/strong><\/p>\n
There is a lot of talk about Reșița lately – a lively city, with a rebuilt public space and several regeneration strategies. Not all of us remember for how long it stood in the shadows and suffered from deindustrialisation, one of the many desperate cases in the country. The rebirth we are beginning to see today is not a miracle, a strike of luck, or an accident. We are talking about Resita as a model of regeneration, of cohabitation between history and new strategies, but also as a city that capitalizes on its potential in all directions. And the transformation is still in its infancy.<\/p>\n
I went to high school in the heart of a neighborhood that was difficult for me to recognize today – Lunca Pomostului. Back then full of booths, shops and bars, a lot of wild vegetation and houses whose facades were hard to discover, the neighborhood was, for us at least, just an area of passage to more important parts of the town. Now I found a lot of light here among the houses, streets free of visual noise, and even lively squares among the blocks of flats, in places where I expected the least. In fact, from one of the windows of the high school I realized that I can see, through an orderly and lively public space, to the other side of the valley where Resita stretches.<\/p>\n
Its inhabitants are divided into those who look nostalgically at the city, remembering its industrial prosperity and those who enjoy it today, admiring and visiting its surroundings, nature, lakes and mountains that complete the valley in all its directions. But today Resita is in a transformation that has amplified in recent years in various ways, from big to small, in one of the largest projects the town has known, from urban and industrial regeneration strategy, space public and, and last but not least, orientation towards regeneration through contemporary art. In order fot this to happen, specialists in various fields have been brought to the table from the very beginning, and this is one of the key elements of the project whose results we are already beginning to see. As trivial as this may seem, it is worth mentioning in a country where administrations are struggling to bring the right actors to the table.
\nI talked to Rudolf Gräf and Paul Buchert about the Lunca Pomostului neighborhood and the interventions in the public space carried out by the Vitamin Architects office in the area, the process behind such a project and the way people received these interventions. With Marina Batog – urban economist and co-founder of MKBT, the studio with which the municipality collaborated in thinking and implementing urban regeneration strategies – we talked about the city’s regeneration directions, starting from the first sketches of the project, started 6 years ago, in a permanent discussion with a mayor wiling to chang and better his city. (Lorena Brează<\/em>)<\/p>\n
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