Environmental Pollution In Functionally Restructured Urban Areas: Case Study - The City Of Bucharest

• Published in: Iranian journal of environmental health science & engineering Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 87 - 96
• Main Authors: Peptenatu, D, Pintilii, R. D, Draghici, C, Stoian, D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tehran Iranian Association of Environmental Health (IAEH) 01-01-2010; Dr Ali Akbari Sari, Director of The Commission for Accreditation & Improvement of Iranian Medical Journals
• Subjects: Economic activity; Environmental economics; Functional restructuring, Territorial management, Urban pollution; Nitrogen dioxide; Noise; Pollution; Shopping centers; Sleep disorders; Traffic flow; Romania, Bucharest
• ISSN: 1735-1979; 1735-2746

This study aims at analyzing the changes that the functional
restructuring of economic activities developed in the communist period
brought upon the quality of the natural environment. It has been done
an individualization of the main areas affected by the marked dynamics
of economic activities in Bucharest due to numberless sources of
emission distributed all over the city. The striking lack of balance in
the condition of the environment is determined by the profound
alterations inside the urban structure. Once the location of performing
economic activities has been shifted towards the outskirts of the city,
other economic activities have been developed inside the urban
structure causing tides to compress, thus exceeding the capacity for
support of the road structure. As a consequence the polluting emissions
are greater than the admitted maximum limits in many areas of
Bucharest. Besides road traffic, numerous construction sites inside the
city which are not suitably organized, add to the increase of polluting
emissions. The local authorities have initiated great projects which
aim at easing the traffic flow inside the city and developing systems
of redirecting the road traffic at city entrances.