Camil Baciu by Mihai Iovănel

“…Starting from his socialism-realism beginnings with propaganda sketches written form Communist newspapers or with rudimentary science-fiction novellas treating themes as anti[1]proletarian development of capitalist technologies like robots and atomic bombs, the essay analyzes Baciu’s gradual literary fulfillment in the Fantastica Romania field of the 60s. …”
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Regulating the Urban Commons: A Romanian Case Study of Improving Building Facades by Anamaria Vrabie, Rodica Ianole-Călin

“… This paper examines the effect of build environment regulations for facades emergency repairs and embellishment, as implemented by the city of Cluj-Napoca, the second largest municipality in Romania. The scope was to identify to what extent the over taxation measure was efficient in generating compliant behaviour and what secondary effects it may have generated in people’s attitude towards the local authorities. …”
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Les paysages périurbains de Roumanie, un développement non contrôlé marqué par ses héritages by Nicoleta Ticana

“…In a country that has known communist system during many decades, where the urbanized space narrowing making part of the State policy, urban sprawl is on the agenda. …”
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Felix Aderca – scriitorul sub vremuri by Mihaela Iancu

“…His creative effort proved to be unceasing throughout his fifty-year-long career, despite the unfavourable historical times in which he lived: being a Jew, he had to pass through a period of antisemitic policy immediately before and during World War II and he also experienced probably the most aggressive years of the communist regime in Romania under the rule of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. …”
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Problema protocronismului. Precizări by Edgar Papu

“…His idea about the Romanian aesthetic forms anticipating or preparing currents, motives or procedures that were later to be experienced and dealt with by the Western culture was published twice before (1977 and 1989), but this one is the first uncensored text diffused after the fall of the communist regime in Romania. Running chronologically, the paper starts with a 16th c. work – contemporary to Machiavelli’s The Prince (1513) – due to the Lord of Walachia, Néagoé Bassarab, entitled The Lectures meant for his son Theodosius (1519-1521), which establishes a canon of reigning principles and skills at hand to his heir to the throne, considered by the author Edgar Papu to anticipate the appearance of the Baroque type of “hombre secreto” described in the treaties of the Jesuit monk Baltasar Gracián, called El Discreto (1646) and Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647). …”
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