APPLYING THE URBAN FUTURES METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING THE METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT IN TIMISOARA, ROMANIA

Timisoara is one of the first five city from Romania, an important Growing Pole in DKMT Euro-region. Timisoara is also into an inner-periphery, among four European capital, Bucharest, Belgrade, Budapest, and Wien that are less than 600 km away. After the political change from 1990 the entire country was massive affected by economic, social, cultural and juridical reconfiguration. During 1990s the city has to deal with a significant population lose, due urban sprawl, negative birth rate and outmigration. Nowadays the municipality try to strengthen the Timisoara’s resilience by developing the metropolitan area. This paper present how can be used the Urban Futures Methodology to evaluate the sustainability of public policies, actions, measures applied toward the transform the city into a metropole. This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CCCDI-UEFISCDI, project number 66/2017 COFUND-ENSUF-3S RECIPE (1), within PNCDI III.