THE ROLE OF FUNCTIONAL AND TERRITORIAL EVOLUTION IN THE GENESIS OF RĂDĂUȚI’S INTERNAL STRUCTURE

Abstract

The town`s complexity as a geographical space is given by the basic characteristics of the components of the human habitat (natural, human and social-economical) which dictate the internal organization in different stages of its evolution. The purpose of the research is to reconstruct the stages of the territorial and functional evolution of Rădăuţi and to describe the contribution to the configuration of the actual internal structure of the settlement. In this paper, the process of internal structuring is analyzed as a continuous process, from the documentary attestation of the settlement (14th century) until today. The main results of the study will be: cartographic representation of territorial evolution and current functional zoning; explaining the specificity of the current urban morphostructure by correlating it with its generating factors; presenting the main functional changes that took place during the internal structuring process of the city. Highlighting the most significant quantitative and qualitative changes that contributed to the city's internal structuring process was based on analyzing, interpretation and processing bibliographic, cartographic and statistical data.