urban planning

Jane Jacobs is a curious figure – one of the legendary civil rights activists in the United States, without a college degree, she sees herself as an economist, but with the greatest influence on urban planning. She was born in 1916 and became famous for her book “The Life and Death of Great American Cities”, which was published in …

On October 5, 1879, the Governor-General of Eastern Rumelia, Prince Alexander Bogoridi, laid the foundation stone for the restoration of Stara Zagora. The city was almost completely plundered and destroyed by the advancing Ottoman army of Suleiman Pasha during the War of Independence, and its inhabitants were subjected to mass extermination, in which nearly 8,000 Bulgarians died. …

Ivelina Y. Petrova A few days ago, the mayor of the capital's Oborishte district - Vasil Tsolov, nominated by the Reformist Bloc, proposed to nationalize the facades of buildings. According to him, the municipality will be a better steward of the mortar plaster and paint, and thus the central part of the city will acquire a Western European appearance. We see another …