urban planning

High-rise construction is not particularly popular in Sofia. Whether it is because it blocks someone's view or because it attracts new residents/workers to a neighborhood that the locals don't like, high-rise construction has recently become a favorite punching bag for politicians, public figures, and ordinary citizens. Quite unusually, it seems on this issue...

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, …

October was another month in which the TEAM actively participated in the public debate in Bulgaria. Our experts were sought after by the media on a variety of political and economic topics, and our report calling for the abolition of the corporate tax enjoyed particular interest. In the first week of October, the presentation of …

| 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 …

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, …

04:25 - The "Vision for Sofia" project and the problems of the capital 48:11 - Global climate change Links Rothbard on ecology: Part 1, part 2 "Vision for Sofia" The Mises Institute on global climate change For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the audio of the podcast by clicking on the "Download" button in ...

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 …

01:13 - The war against gambling and "coupons" 26:38 - Urban development through a free market Links: The proposed amendments to the Gambling Law Foundation "Bulgarian Architectural Modernism" Articles by Teodor Karakolev can be found here, here and here. For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the audio of the podcast by clicking on …

The dream of the perfect city is almost as old as civilization itself. Whether city planners dream of parallel and perpendicular straight streets, or radial streets intersected by smaller and larger rings of "rings" or some other variation - proto-urbanists' attempts to create the ideal urban environment have been around for centuries. Older than them...