The fractal perspective on the evolution of the peripheral urban fabric (Bucharest, Romania)

ABSTRACT: This article presents the issue of contemporary urban dynamics, wherein urban sprawl occupies a central position. The post-Fordist city, an expression of individual initiative and piecemeal projects, decidedly favors this phenomenon, on the background of a constant rise in the social demand for individual housing. Faced with this new trend of extensive development, it is necessary to find ways of conciliating the categories of actors responsible for “creating the city”, in the spirit of a sustainable, medium and long-term urban development, done, as far as possible, in the manner of an integrated approach. The perspective of the fractal modeling performed using the MUP City computer software may constitute an instrument which can be used in this context, putting forward a fractal reinterpretation of the principle of the garden-city.