Arhitectura 3-4/2024 (711-712)

"How many cars can a city support? How should they be so that the city tolerates them as well as possible (like antibiotics)? In what regime should they be used? How many car owners can there be? What sense are individual garages with tools and spare parts today? So where do we keep the cars? What roles can the automobile take on in the city? How do we prepare the way there? How do we restructure the city? Should the expected traffic still determine the road infrastructure? Of course not, because it is the other way around. The space given to cars for circulation and parking should be the result of a more judicious division, taking into account the needs of pedestrians, cyclists, utilities and public transport. How do we change traffic relationships? Some cities have implemented solutions with some success. Which of them can be generalized and improved? What goals, strategies and concepts are likely to bring the specialists together, and then with the authorities and users - of the city and of the car? What solutions do we still have? Where do we apply them and how do we adapt them?" - Anca Sandu Tomaszewski We don't know if we managed to answer any of these questions, but we wrote what we thought, inspired by Petre Țuțea's thesis "Aflarea în treabă la români" with the paraphrase "aflarea în traffic la români".