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- Title
On the wrong side of the track: railways as urban boundaries in the towns of the First Transylvanian Railway.
- Authors
PURCAR, CRISTINA
- Abstract
This article addresses the morphological and functional implications of the railway as an urban boundary, by studying seven towns in Romania, connected by the First Transylvanian Railway (1868-70). The research highlights similarities and differences as to the initial railway insertion, the subsequent growth patterns and the differentiation appearing between areas adjoining the railway tracks. The article argues that although a 'wrong side of the track' did not emerge everywhere, the segregation and lack of urban amenities affecting the areas which could be thus labelled is rooted in the failure to render the railway barrier permeable and to generate complementarity rather than subordination between the two sides of the track.
- Subjects
TRANSYLVANIA (Romania); ROMANIA; RAILROADS &; society; GEOGRAPHIC boundaries; URBAN growth; RAILROADS &; the environment; URBAN policy; URBAN life; URBAN sociology
- Publication
Urban History, 2010, Vol 37, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926810000076