Urban Planning In Socialist Romania: Liliana Iuga in conversation with Mate Rigo

Even though the first image that comes to mind about Ceaușescu’s Romania is the sweeping destruction of traditional city centers, Liliana Iuga talks about the socialist impetus to save urban resources and a mure nuanced approach to demolitions in communist Romania. What was the role of historical preservation within socialist urbanism? How did interwar technocrats become recycled in the 1950s and 1960s? How did urban property rights inhibit the planners of a socialist state?