Urban planning

This article is an excerpt from the new report of the EKIP "Urban Planning Policy in Sofia: Recommendations for Reform" Traffic congestion in Sofia is one of the major problems in the capital. Increased traffic is a difficult problem to solve in many places around the world, and everywhere it leads to the same negative effects that citizens, …

| Full text of the report | In recent years, urban planning issues in Sofia have become a particularly topical and politically heated topic in the public sphere. Our new report aims to present our vision of the reforms that urban planning policy in Sofia needs in order to improve its quality …

This article is an excerpt from the new report of the EKIP on urban planning policy in Sofia, authored by Georgi Vuldjev and Teodor Karakolev, which will be officially published on 06.11.2018. In recent years in Sofia, we have been lucky enough to observe a visual comparative experiment between two approaches to attracting more investment, stimulating …

Parks are an invention and a luxury of modern society. This is true of many things that we take for granted, but they are a direct result of the general affluence in some parts of the world, a consequence of the division of labor, of scientific progress, and in general – the opportunity to live without working every day, all day, …

The Sofia neighborhood of Mladost has become a center of what American political scientists call grassroots activism. Starting with the election of the controversial and currently indicted Desislava Ivancheva as district mayor in October 2016 – through the support of local committees and gravitating activists of small urban parties in opposition to …

Authors: Dimitar Karagegov, Georgi Vuldjev They say that for every big lie you need accomplices. What happens when your accomplices are an entire neighborhood of 120,000 This is the story of the Mladost District – “green”, “people’s”, “supra-partisan”, “overdeveloped” and seriously misled. It can’t be otherwise when everything stems from a lie…

Imagine that you live in the Ideal Neighborhood. In the Ideal Neighborhood, you live in an apartment building with a large parking lot in front and a large garden behind it with trees, grass, climbing plants, and whatever else you need to keep it green. There are many more such ideal blocks near you. The Ideal Neighborhood …