Delineation of the Urban Influence Area Using the Multi-Criteria Assessment Method. The Case of Focşani City, Romania

How Do the New Residential Areas in Bucharest Satisfy Population Demands, and Where Do They Fall Short?

“…However, today, the large capitals of these countries, including Bucharest, undergo an urban-sprawl-like suburbanization process [49]. In the post-communist period, Romania's large cities' urban landscape registered tendencies of rapidly extending their residential and services areas, especially storage and retail, particularly inside their area of influence [50], and simultaneously de-and relocating some of their other functions (especially the industrial one) toward the periphery (Figure 1). Against continuous deindustrialization, the market resorted to extending residential areas.…”

"An Opinion on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Analysis for Sustainability-Based Spatial Planning Practices.Time to Improve? "

“…A complex matter such as spatial planning needs to be approached as a multidimensional procedure whose constituents should be analyzed in a systematic manner (Merciu et al, 2019;Kamali et al, 2015;Jahanshahi et al, 2019;Kamali et al, 2017). We are aware that a number of decision-making processes have been introduced to the scientific community and some of them have attracted huge attention in recent years, as confirmed by the number of published articles in the literature.…”